{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://taylor.house.gov/media/press-releases/icymi-congressman-taylor-talks-impact-schumer-shutdown-southern-ohio-tim-young", "ICYMI: Congressman Taylor Talks Impact of Schumer Shutdown on Southern Ohio on Tim Young Show", "2025-10-09", "2025", "2025-10", "Republican", "House", "OH", "David J. Taylor", "T000490", "taylor.house.gov", "taylor", "https://taylor.house.gov/media/press-releases", "scraper", "WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 Congressman Dave Taylor (OH-02) joined the Tim Young Show yesterday to call out the harmful effects that the Democrat-led government shutdown is having on southern Ohio communities. Today marks the ninth day that the government has been shut down since appropriations lapsed on October 1, due to Congress\u2019s inability to pass legislation funding government operations for the new fiscal year as a result of Democrat stonewalling. Congressman Taylor\u2019s remarks from the Tim Young Show are available below.\n\nOn Democrats prioritizing reckless spending and illegal aliens over Americans\n\nCongressman Taylor:\n\n\u201cDemocrats wanted a clean, short-term CR, which is exactly what House Republicans passed three weeks ago. It\u2019s clean, it\u2019s short-term, and once we delivered that to them, Democrats decided they wanted to add a laundry list of ridiculous demands, including free health care for illegal aliens and added spending. The Working Families Tax Cut Act just got done cutting $1.6 trillion dollars in spending over the next ten years, and now Democrats want to spend $1.5 trillion in the next month and a half. It doesn\u2019t make sense.\u201d\n\nHost Tim Young:\n\n\u201cAre Ohioans actually paying attention to this nonsense from the Democrats and saying, \u2018Hey, enough is enough,\u2019 and realizing that they want to be America First?\u201d\n\nCongressman Taylor:\n\n\u201cThey are, Tim. My district is a very common-sense district. It\u2019s very Appalachian and very agricultural. Schumer is putting hundreds of thousands of people out of a job in a desperate attempt to save his job. He is painting himself into a position where he might not keep it, no matter how he proceeds from here. It\u2019s time to let the American people get back to work.\u201d\n\nOn the impact on American farmers\n\nHost Tim Young:\n\n\u201cYour district has a lot of farmers in it. How are they impacted by this government shutdown?\u201d\n\nCongressman Taylor:\n\n\u201cI actually just had breakfast with a friend of mine who is not going to work at the USDA, where he should be, because of the shutdown. It\u2019s going to affect farmers a lot because they rely on so many USDA programs. Southern Ohio experienced a bad drought last year, and farmers need assistance. Out of all the assistance that was set in motion under the Working Families Tax Cut Act, no sector of American commerce received more help from it than farmers. This government shutdown throws a wrench into that at the worst possible time. Senate Democrats need to stop playing games with farmers\u2019 livelihoods and open the government back up so our agriculture industry can keep food on our families\u2019 tables.\u201d\n\nOn the impact on rural health care\n\nCongressman Taylor:\n\n\u201cThere\u2019s one other thing that hasn\u2019t been discussed as much that is really going to affect my district. Democrats targeted the $50 billion dollars in the Rural Health Transformation Program money, which is vital in my district. All the hospitals here are basically rural hospitals. We have great hospitals, and the quality of care is amazing, but the distance between them is unacceptable. The situation in my district, health care-wise, is dire. So, the idea that Democrats are going to target those dollars that are long overdue to keep these hospitals viable and find a path forward for them that makes it sustainable in the long term, that was a particularly galling move in my opinion.\u201d", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T19:32:54Z"]], "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://taylor.house.gov/media/press-releases/icymi-congressman-taylor-talks-impact-schumer-shutdown-southern-ohio-tim-young"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.6593551263213158, "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"}