{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://amo.house.gov/press-release/amo-fights-back-against-republican-budget-that-increases-debt-funds-illegal-war-and-fails-to-lower-costs", "Amo Fights Back Against Republican Budget that Increases Debt, Funds Illegal War, and Fails to Lower Costs", "2026-07-17", "2026", "2026-07", "Democrat", "House", "RI", "Gabe Amo", "A000380", "amo.house.gov", "amo", "https://amo.house.gov/press-releases", "scraper", "Washington, D.C. \u2013 YESTERDAY, Congressman Gabe Amo (D-RI), Member of the House Committee on the Budget, called out Republicans' latest budget boondoggle, which would add $95 billion to the deficit while making it harder to vote and doing nothing to lower costs for Rhode Islanders.\n\nAmo introduced an Amendment to reverse the energy cuts in the Big, Ugly Law and lower costs for consumers.\n\n\u201cTwo years ago, President Trump made a promise to drive down prices, he hasn\u2019t kept it,\u201d said Congressman Gabe Amo (D-RI). \u201cFrom his Big, Ugly Law, to his erratic tariffs, to his illegal war with Iran, he has slashed health care and clean energy projects, driven grocery prices through the roof, and caused gas prices to skyrocket. Americans deserve lower costs and more opportunity, not another foreign war in the Middle East that adds to our debt, jacks up costs, and makes us less safe. I\u2019m a NO on Trump\u2019s latest disastrous budget, and I will keep fighting to stop chaos, end the war, and lower costs. \u201d\n\nWATCH HERE: Congressman Amo Speaks Directly to Rhode Islanders about Republicans Refusal to Lower Costs and Willingness to Fund Trump\u2019s Iran War\n\nBackground\n\nCongressman Amo, a Member of the House Committee on the Budget, offered an amendment to Republicans' latest Budget Reconciliation bill that would have reversed the energy cuts in the Big, Ugly Law that are driving up costs and making life more expensive for Rhode Islanders.\n\nAmo has been a staunch opponent of Trump\u2019s Big, Ugly Law attempting to amend it before it was passed to protect Medicaid and SNAP.\n\nThe Congressman has also traveled across the First Congressional District meeting with Rhode Islanders impacted by Trump\u2019s devastating Big, Ugly Law.\n\n###", 1, "2026-07-18T06:58:50Z", "2026-07-18T07:00:34Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://amo.house.gov/press-release/amo-fights-back-against-republican-budget-that-increases-debt-funds-illegal-war-and-fails-to-lower-costs"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.920196995139122, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}