{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://stansbury.house.gov/media/press-releases/video-rep-stansbury-holds-press-conference-pending-government-shutdown", "VIDEO: Rep. Stansbury Holds Press Conference on Pending Government Shutdown", "2025-09-26", "2025", "2025-09", "Democrat", "House", "NM", "Melanie A. Stansbury", "S001218", "stansbury.house.gov", "stansbury", "https://stansbury.house.gov/media/press-releases", "scraper", "ALBUQUERQUE\u2014Representative Melanie Stansbury (NM-01) held a press conference today to address the looming government shutdown. Federal funding is set to expire at midnight on Tuesday, September 30, 2025. Without passage of a funding bill or short-term Continuing Resolution, a shutdown will begin at 12:01 AM on Wednesday, October 1.\n\nRep. Stansbury outlined the broad impacts of a shutdown, including disruptions to critical federal agency operations, threats from OMB Director Russell Vought of mass federal employee firings, and specific consequences for New Mexico.\n\nShe also highlighted the proactive response at the state level: a special legislative session called by the Governor and state leaders to address anticipated shortfalls in health care, food assistance, and public broadcasting. New Mexico is among a few states preparing state-level responses to federal inaction.\n\n\u201cLet me be clear: New Mexico\u2019s entire Congressional delegation is showing up for our state and the American people\u2014despite efforts by Republican leadership to cancel votes, the President\u2019s refusal to negotiate, and threats of mass firings.\n\n\u201cRepublicans control the White House, Senate, and House of Representatives and have all but guaranteed a shutdown by refusing to negotiate in good faith.\n\n\u201cDemocrats are fighting to keep the government open, address devastating cuts to Medicaid and heath care premiums, and abuses of Constitutional power.\n\n\u201cHere\u2019s what we want: keep the government open, restore Medicaid and federal health care programs, and stop Administrative overreach and mass firings of federal employees. It\u2019s that simple.\n\n\u201cWithout action, New Mexico could face some of the deepest health care cuts in the country, affecting families and businesses.\n\n\u201cWe\u2019re ready to work with our Republican colleagues to put communities and the American people first\u2014because that\u2019s who we serve.\u201d", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T19:10:29Z"]], "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://stansbury.house.gov/media/press-releases/video-rep-stansbury-holds-press-conference-pending-government-shutdown"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.9076721034944057, "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"}