{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://estes.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=7256", "ICYMI: Estes Joins Mornings with Maria", "2025-11-04", "2025", "2025-11", "Republican", "House", "KS", "Ron Estes", "E000298", "estes.house.gov", "estes", "https://estes.house.gov/news/documentquery.aspx?DocumentTypeID=27", "scraper", "U.S. Congressman Ron Estes (R-Kansas) joined Mornings with Maria to discuss the ongoing Schumer Shutdown, France\u2019s decision to double their digital services tax, and more. Watch the interview on YouTube and Rumble.\n\n\u201cWell, I do expect that the Democrats at some point in time are gonna have to come to their senses and realize what damage they're causing. You look at the \u2026 93,000 Kansans who are suffering because of food stamps, and so many TSA agents and law enforcement, border patrol, folks that are actually working to protect us, that aren't getting paid and having to figure that out.\n\n\u201cThe Democrats continue to do the filibuster and [are] trying to say that they want to keep these COVID bailouts on the Obamacare [enhanced tax subsidies] and, unfortunately, I do think the election is \u2026 one of those reasons why they were trying to hold this leverage, through the election, to help them on the elections across so many of the states in the country. But now they've got to come down and \u2026 focus on what it takes to operate the government.\u201d\n\nOn what the outcomes of the off-year elections could mean for the crumbling Democratic party:\n\n\u201cI do think it'll have an impact. The problem is, you could argue which way it goes. I mean, if you end up having the governorship split between New Jersey and Virginia, then what's the Democrats' talking points after that? \u2026 I don't know \u2026 how they're gonna get themselves out of the corner they've backed themselves into. It really is problematic what they've created and done.\u201d\n\nOn France\u2019s discriminatory tax against American companies:\n\n\u201cIt really is discriminatory against U.S. companies. We've been focusing, and the U.S. Treasury has been working really well with OECD, to fix some of the problems with this Pillar Two global minimum tax they've had out there.\n\n\u201cAnd so now France is coming back and doubling their digital services tax, trying to attack any company that uses electronics. And they specifically \u2026 doubled it, but they also changed the definition of who would be liable for it.\n\n\u201cSo basically, it's targeting U.S.-based companies because of the size of the company. And it's inappropriate. It's actually a direct attack on the United States and U.S.-based businesses. I've been a vocal critic through that.\n\n\u201cPresident Trump has some tools like Section 301 and even Section 891 as ways to help out. I mean, we're more than willing in Congress, a lot of us in terms of being able to stand up for U.S. businesses. We can pass additional legislation to help address this.\n\n\u201cThis is just the wrong direction for us to go, for the world to go, as we're working at how do we maintain good trade and [a] good global economy?\u201d", 1, "2026-04-07T15:39:47Z", "2026-04-07T20:18:39Z"]], "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://estes.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=7256"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.7449369877576828, "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"}