{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://davids.house.gov/media/press-releases/davids-statement-consequential-government-shutdown", "Davids Statement on Consequential Government Shutdown", "2025-10-01", "2025", "2025-10", "Democrat", "House", "KS", "Sharice Davids", "D000629", "davids.house.gov", "davids", "https://davids.house.gov/media/press-releases", "scraper", "Today, Representative Sharice Davids released the following statement as the federal government ran out of funding, leading to a government shutdown. Davids previously urged House leadership to work across the aisle to safeguard the livelihoods of Kansans and prevent an avoidable shutdown.\n\n\u201cThe avoidable government shutdown we\u2019re facing is more than just a political standoff. It will have a severe impact on our economy and cause real harm to hardworking Kansans \u2014 delaying payments to our military and federal employees, interrupting Social Security benefits, and increasing hunger among women and children.\n\n\u201cAs of now, we\u2019ve seen no serious effort from Republican leadership in Washington to work across the aisle on funding the government. Kansans are already feeling the effects of the administration\u2019s reckless policies \u2014 rising prices, lost jobs, and cuts to essential services like health care. A shutdown will only make those challenges worse.\n\n\u201cThis moment calls for cooperation from both sides. I will continue pushing for a bipartisan solution to reopen the government and address other critical issues, including protecting health care premium tax credits before they expire and drive costs even higher for families.\n\n\u201cI encourage all Kansans in the Third District affected by the shutdown to visit davids.house.gov/shutdown for helpful resources or to share their stories. While the shutdown may cause processing delays at federal agencies, my team is ready to help however we can.\u201d\n\nBackground:\n\nIt is a fact that Donald Trump and Republican leaders need Democratic votes to pass any funding bill, but the president openly said, \u201cDon\u2019t even bother dealing with them.\u201d This dismissal of bipartisan negotiations has further complicated efforts to reach a compromise that benefits Kansans and keeps the government open.\n\nDavids continues to push for a bipartisan agreement to open the federal government. A shutdown will have serious impacts on Kansas families and the overall U.S. economy. Americans will face disruptions to important benefits, service members would not be compensated, many small businesses would have to alter their operations, and federal workers would be furloughed and go unpaid. Specifically:\n\nIt\u2019s estimated the five-week partial government shutdown in 2018-2019 reduced economic output by $11 billion in the following two quarters and the 2013 full government shutdown reduced GDP growth by $20 billion.\n\nKansans receiving Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid benefits will experience service delays, including disruptions to verifying benefits and the issuance of new cards.\n\nThere are currently more than 15,000 federal workers in Kansas who may be furloughed. A bipartisan report found that the last three government shutdowns led to the equivalent of 56,940 years in lost productivity from federal workers.\n\nThe distribution of important food assistance programs, including SNAP, will be disrupted, leaving some Kansan \u2014 including women, children, and the elderly \u2014 without nutritious food.\n\nSmall businesses will encounter delays in receiving loans from the federal government. Moody\u2019s Analytics estimated that the 2018-2019 shutdown delayed more than $2 billion in loans to small businesses.\n\nTravelers will face longer lines at airport security checkpoints and flight delays during a shutdown, which would also delay passport processing times even further.", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T19:32:54Z"]], "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://davids.house.gov/media/press-releases/davids-statement-consequential-government-shutdown"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.8802269585430622, "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"}