{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.barrasso.senate.gov/newsroom-news-releases-barrasso-bill-funds-southern-border-wall-with-unused-covid-19-funds/", "Barrasso Bill Funds Southern Border Wall with Unused COVID-19 Funds", "2024-05-21", "2024", "2024-05", "Republican", "Senate", "WY", "John Barrasso", "B001261", "www.barrasso.senate.gov", "barrasso", "https://www.barrasso.senate.gov/newsroom/news-releases/", "scraper", "WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) introduced legislation that would require unobligated COVID-19 funds be used to finish building the wall along our southern border.\n\nSenator Barrasso introduced the legislation as an amendment to the Border Security Act (S. 4361).\n\nThe Build the Wall Act of 2024 would establish the \u201cSouthern Border Wall Construction Fund\u201d and require the Department of Homeland Security to use any unobligated Coronavirus State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds (SLFRF) to construct and maintain physical barriers along the southern border of the United States.\n\n\u201cBorder walls work. Before President Biden came into office, we were well on our way to a secure and safe southern border. But on his first day in office, the president and Democrats rolled out the welcome mat for millions of illegal immigrants to come into our nation,\u201d said Senator Barrasso. \u201cWe must hold Democrats accountable for their open border policies that have created the worst border crisis in our nation\u2019s history. If they are serious about securing our border, they should have no issues voting for a policy that actually works and is already paid for.\u201d\n\nFull text of the legislation can be found here.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T18:12:30Z"]], "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://www.barrasso.senate.gov/newsroom-news-releases-barrasso-bill-funds-southern-border-wall-with-unused-covid-19-funds/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.8256188593804836, "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"}