{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://balint.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=377", "Rep. Becca Balint Votes \u201cNo\u201d on Inflated Defense Spending Bill", "2024-12-11", "2024", "2024-12", "Democrat", "House", "VT", "Becca Balint", "B001318", "balint.house.gov", "balint", "https://balint.house.gov/news/documentquery.aspx?DocumentTypeID=27", "scraper", "Contact:\n\nSophie.Pollock@mail.house.gov\n\nWashington, D.C. \u2014 Rep. Becca Balint (VT-AL) released the following statement on this year\u2019s defense spending bill:\n\n\u201cWe cannot bankroll a nearly $1 trillion military budget, while we continue to underfund our schools, housing, and essential programs American families depend on. This exorbitant level of spending doesn\u2019t serve to improve the lives of regular Americans, but rather line the pockets of the wealthy defense industry. The Pentagon has never passed an audit.\n\n\u201cI will always support service members receiving the care they deserve, which this bill restricts. Republicans have decided to politicize this important funding responsibility with yet another attack on military families with trans children. While Democrats support age appropriate, medically recommended health care for everyone, Republicans have singled out these military families and stripped them of life saving care. It\u2019s about stoking fear and promoting misinformation.\n\n\u201cThe federal budget is a reflection of our values as Americans. It\u2019s long past time we put the urgent needs of working families before giving a blank check to the military industrial complex.\u201d\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-07T22:13:55Z"]], "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://balint.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=377"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 2.1577070001512766, "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"}