{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://delbene.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=3664", "DelBene: \u2019MAGA Shutdown Threatens Families, Economy", "2023-09-19", "2023", "2023-09", "Democrat", "House", "WA", "Suzan K. DelBene", "D000617", "delbene.house.gov", "delbene", "https://delbene.house.gov/news/documentquery.aspx?DocumentTypeID=27", "scraper", "Today, Congresswoman Suzan DelBene (WA-01) joined House Democratic Caucus Chair Pete Aguilar (CA-33) and Vice Chair Ted Lieu (CA-36) to highlight House Democrats\u2019 accomplishments in strengthening the economy and middle-class, lowering costs, increasing wages for workers, and achieving record-low unemployment rates. Meanwhile, Republicans are willing to risk a government shutdown to advance their extreme and unpopular agenda.\n\nThe video can be found here and the transcript is below.\n\nThanks to our Chair and Vice-Chair.\n\nGood morning, everyone. It\u2019s great to be here with you today.\n\nWe just finished our Caucus meeting with our Democratic colleagues down the street.\n\nI\u2019ll start by saying there\u2019s a lot of energy in the room around taking back the majority next year.\n\nWe are united, unlike Republicans, around governing and addressing the issues families are facing right now.\n\nWe\u2019ve accomplished a lot of important work when Democrats were in the majority.\n\nAnd we know families are still struggling and there\u2019s more to do and that should be the focus.\n\nThere couldn\u2019t be a clearer contrast between Democrats and Republicans than the one our colleagues in the majority are making for us right now.\n\nHouse Democrats\u2019 top priority is rebuilding a strong middle class and an economy that works for everyone.\n\nMeanwhile, House Republicans are hell-bent on forcing their extreme, right-wing ideology on the American people.\n\nWe should all be clear that the cuts and policy riders they are pushing do nothing to help families, who are struggling right now, or move our economy forward.\n\nAnd they\u2019re willing to force a MAGA shutdown if they don\u2019t get their way.\n\nNo one in the Republican caucus is willing or able to stop this from happening. The truth is the extremists are the ones truly running the show for House Republicans.\n\nAnd you have 18 members, Republican members, in districts that President Biden won who fall in line every time and continue to enable the extremism.\n\nThey call themselves moderates, sometimes you[the press] call them moderates, but I can tell you there aren\u2019t any moderates left in the Republican Party. They\u2019re just vulnerable Republicans who give in to the extremists and we\u2019re going to continue to hold them accountable.\n\nIf Republicans shut down the government, we\u2019re going to make sure the American people know why federal efforts to combat drug trafficking aren\u2019t funded, or why federal firefighters have to work without pay, or why homebuyers won\u2019t be able to get their mortgages approved.\n\nThere is a huge list of things that are impacted when the government is shut down and shut down for no reason.\n\nThe truth is that House Republicans are not serious about improving the lives of hardworking Americans.\n\nDemocrats are focused on the kitchen table issues that families are facing every day across the country, from lowering costs to creating good-paying jobs here in the U.S. to making our communities safer.\n\nSo that\u2019s why the contrast is so important, something we\u2019ll be focused on highlighting from now until next November.\n\nAnd I\u2019ll turn it back over to the Chair.", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-08T00:37:48Z"]], "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://delbene.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=3664"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.6763657331466675, "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"}