{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://omar.house.gov/media/press-releases/rep-ilhan-omars-statement-impending-government-shutdown", "Rep. Ilhan Omar's Statement on the Impending Government Shutdown", "2023-09-29", "2023", "2023-09", "Democrat", "House", "MN", "Ilhan Omar", "O000173", "omar.house.gov", "omar", "https://omar.house.gov/media/press-releases", "scraper", "WASHINGTON\u2014Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), released the following statement on the looming government shutdown\n\n\u201cThis shutdown is not only tragic, but completely avoidable. An overwhelming bipartisan majority of lawmakers in the House support a clean bill to keep the government open. The Senate is prepared to pass it, the President is prepared to sign it.\n\n\u201cBut the most extreme faction of MAGA wing of the party\u2014egged on by Donald Trump, who craves a distraction from his indictments and criminal charges\u2014are demanding an endless list of cuts that has brought us to a government shutdown.\n\n\u201cMarjorie Taylor Greene specifically demanded an impeachment inquiry against Joe Biden in order to keep the government open. Matt Gaetz and other far right members are demanding near-complete abandonment of Ukraine in a gift to Russia, along with draconian measures that will punish migrants, refugees and asylum seekers.\n\n\u201cI serve in Democratic leadership on the House Budget Committee, where a faction of Republicans just introduced a radical budget resolution designed to appease their right wing. What does it do? It keeps in place every single dime of the Trump tax cuts for the rich, every single dime in funding for the Pentagon and military contracts, and makes some of the biggest cuts in history to programs that Minnesotans turn to: food stamps, Meals on Wheels, Medicaid, housing, veterans healthcare, and Medicare\n\n\u201cThis shutdown will be tragic for Minnesotans. Hundreds of thousands of workers won\u2019t get paid. Small business owners in Minnesota forced to wait for loans and certifications. Our constituents\u2019 safety put at risk as FDA food inspections and EPA environmental inspections are suspended.\n\n\u201cBut we have to remember how we got here. The government has shutdown four times in the past 30 years. Each time it happened, an extreme faction of Republicans were in charge of the House of Representatives.\n\n\u201cWe need a clean bill to keep the government open, before this causes real harm. It\u2019s time for Republicans to stop playing with people\u2019s lives and do their jobs.\u201d", 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://omar.house.gov/media/press-releases/rep-ilhan-omars-statement-impending-government-shutdown"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.7705739699304104, "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"}