{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://hudson.house.gov/press-releases/its-time-for-democrats-to-end-their-shutdown", "It\u2019s Time For Democrats to End Their Shutdown", "2025-11-21", "2025", "2025-11", "Republican", "House", "NC", "Richard Hudson", "H001067", "hudson.house.gov", "hudson", "https://hudson.house.gov/media/press-releases", "scraper", "FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE\n\nOctober 31st, 2025\n\nContact: James Laverty\n\nPRESS RELEASE:\n\nCongressman Richard Hudson: It\u2019s Time For Democrats to End Their Shutdown\n\nWASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 On Day 31 of the Democrat Shutdown, U.S. Representative Richard Hudson (NC-09) is calling on Senate Democrats to stop using Americans\u2019 pain as political \u201cleverage\u201d and vote for the clean Continuing Resolution (CR) the House passed over a month ago.\n\n\u201cHouse Republicans passed a clean bill to keep the government open, pay our troops, and protect families,\u201d said Hudson. \u201cDemocrats are using families\u2019 pain as leverage for $1.5 trillion in new spending and handouts for illegal immigrants. Enough is enough.\u201d\n\nThese are the facts of the Democrat Shutdown:\n\nHouse Republicans voted to fund the government on September 19.\n\nAll North Carolina Democrats voted to shut down the government on September 19.\n\nSenate Democrats voted to keep the government closed for the thirteenth time this week.\n\nPresident Trump paid the troops with existing funds, but those funds will run out imminently - leaving military families without paychecks.\n\n79,000 federal workers in NC, including at Fort Bragg, Camp Lejeune, Veterans offices, Air Traffic Control, Transportation Security Administration officials, Farm Service Offices and more will miss paychecks.\n\nMore than 1.3 million North Carolinians and 42 million Americans could lose SNAP benefits in November.\n\n238,000 Women, Infants and Children (WIC) beneficiaries who will miss their funding.\n\nFlight delays, food aid disruptions, and higher costs are hitting families and small businesses across North Carolina.\n\n\u201cThe House has done its job, and it\u2019s time for Senate Democrats to do theirs. Vote to fund the government, pay our troops, give veterans and seniors their hard-earned benefits and let\u2019s get America back to work so we can focus on what matters: growing the economy and getting the cost of living down, cutting red tape, unleashing American energy, and delivering commonsense solutions for families, farmers and small businesses.\u201d", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T19:52:45Z"]], "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://hudson.house.gov/press-releases/its-time-for-democrats-to-end-their-shutdown"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.425046008080244, "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"}