{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://davids.house.gov/media/press-releases/watch-davids-speaks-kansans-impacted-government-shutdown", "WATCH: Davids Speaks with Kansans Impacted by Government Shutdown", "2025-10-09", "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 hosted a press conference alongside Kansans whose industries have been directly affected by the government shutdown. Those participants shared personal and professional stories, including how the shutdown impacts mental health services and infrastructure projects at home. Davids has repeatedly advocated for a bipartisan solution to reopen the government and safeguard the livelihoods of Kansans.\n\n\u201cThis shutdown is a devastating blow to our economy and represents real consequences for hardworking Kansans,\u201d said Davids. \u201cI\u2019m committed to working with both parties to find a commonsense, bipartisan solution to reopen the government and ensure Kansans are protected from skyrocketing health care costs. As we heard today, there\u2019s too much at stake for this to go on any longer.\u201d\n\nWATCH: Davids is joined by Kansans whose industries have been affected by the government shutdown\n\nAt today\u2019s press conference, Davids was joined by Tim DeWeese of Johnson County Mental Health Center, Haley Kottler of Kansas Appleseed, Keely Schneider of Workforce Partnership, and Sarah White of the Missouri & Associated Rivers Coalition (MOARC) to highlight how the ongoing government shutdown is affecting Kansans. Mental health services face delays and reduced access, workforce training and small business support are stalled, vital river and infrastructure projects are slowed, and nutrition assistance programs like SNAP and WIC are at risk \u2014 putting families, workers, and communities across the state in jeopardy.\n\nDavids is pushing for a bipartisan agreement to reopen the government and protect Kansans from the consequences of partisan gridlock in D.C. She recently announced her support for two bills: one to guarantee pay for aviation workers and another to ensure active-duty service members continue receiving their paychecks. Kansas is home to more than 25,000 federal employees and more than 21,000 active-duty service members.\n\nA shutdown has serious impacts on Kansas families and the overall U.S. economy. Americans now face disruptions to important benefits, service members are not being compensated, many small businesses have altered their operations, and federal workers have been furloughed without pay. 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 are experiencing service delays, including disruptions to verifying benefits and the issuance of new cards.\n\nThere are currently more than 25,000 federal workers in Kansas who may have been furloughed.\n\nA 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, has been disrupted, leaving some Kansans \u2014 including women, children, and the elderly \u2014 without nutritious food.\n\nSmall businesses are dealing with delays in receiving loans from the federal government.\n\nMoody\u2019s Analytics estimated that the 2018-2019 shutdown delayed more than $2 billion in loans to small businesses.\n\nTravelers are seeing longer lines at airport security checkpoints and flight delays. They\u2019re also dealing with delayed passport processing times.", 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/watch-davids-speaks-kansans-impacted-government-shutdown"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 2.471084939315915, "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"}