{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://golden.house.gov/media/press-releases/golden-statement-on-trump-s-new-push-to-offshore-navy-shipbuilding", "Golden statement on Trump\u2019s new push to offshore Navy shipbuilding", "2026-08-14", "2026", "2026-08", "Democrat", "House", "ME", "Jared F. Golden", "G000592", "golden.house.gov", "golden", "https://golden.house.gov/media/press-releases", "scraper", "WASHINGTON \u2014 Congressman Jared Golden (ME-02) released the following statement in response to President Donald Trump\u2019s latest effort to build American warships in foreign shipyards:\n\n\u201cI don\u2019t know how we\u2019re supposed to take any soaring \u2018America-first\u2019 language from this administration seriously when it appears to be bound and determined to send American shipbuilding jobs overseas and, now, to sell American shipyards to foreign corporations. Luckily, the House has already given bipartisan support to my language to block this short-sighted offshoring scheme, and the Senate is poised to do the same. Congress must take seriously its job to protect national security and American jobs.\u201d\n\nBACKGROUND:\n\nGolden successfully amended this year\u2019s National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) to explicitly prohibit the appropriation of federal funds to build American ships overseas. The House passed the NDAA, with Golden\u2019s language to protect American shipbuilding, in July.\n\nGolden\u2019s amendment was in response to a Navy Shipbuilding Plan released by the Pentagon earlier this year, which called for offshoring the production of some warships, or parts of warships, in overseas yards.\n\nMaine\u2019s 2nd Congressional District is home to scores of shipbuilders employed at Bath Iron Works who build DDG-51 Destroyers, which Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has called the \u201cworkhorse\u201d of the US naval fleet.\n\n###", 1, "2026-08-18T05:27:41Z", "2026-08-18T05:29:06Z"]], "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://golden.house.gov/media/press-releases/golden-statement-on-trump-s-new-push-to-offshore-navy-shipbuilding"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.7489640265703201, "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"}