{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.barrasso.senate.gov/the-washington-post-editorial-board-the-shutdown-conversation-no-one-wants/", "The Washington Post Editorial Board: The Shutdown Conversation No One Wants", "2025-10-06", "2025", "2025-10", "Republican", "Senate", "WY", "John Barrasso", "B001261", "www.barrasso.senate.gov", "barrasso", "https://www.barrasso.senate.gov/newsroom/news-releases/", "scraper", "\u201cDemocrats are losing the Schumer Shutdown. Even their media allies are turning on them.\u201d\n\nWASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-Wyo.), Senate Majority Whip, spoke on the Senate Floor today to highlight an editorial from The Washington Post slamming the Democrats\u2019 shutdown strategy.\n\nClick HERE to watch Senator Barrasso\u2019s remarks.\n\nSen. Barrasso\u2019s remarks as prepared:\n\n\u201cDemocrats are losing the Schumer Shutdown. Even their media allies are turning on them. Here is an editorial from The Washington Post today. The headline is, \u2018The shutdown conversation no one wants.\u2019 The Washington Post Editorial Board wrote this: \u2018Democrats have demanded that Republicans agree to extend the covid-era insurance subsidies without proposing any way to pay for it. The Congressional Budget Office estimates this will cost $350 billion over the next decade.\u2019 That\u2019s The Washington Post talking \u2013 not Republicans.\n\n\u201cIt\u2019s no surprise Democrats are avoiding this conversation. Obamacare is broken. Obamacare is a failure. Now, Democrats are holding the American people hostage to prop it up.\n\n\u201cThe Biden Bonus COVID Payment are a Bait-and-Switch. Democrats created them in 2021 as a temporary COVID program. They extended them temporarily in 2022. They set an end date for the end of this year. Now, they are demanding that these permanent become permanent \u2013 at a cost of $350 billion. That is unacceptable.\n\n\u201cThis is a system riddled with waste, fraud, abuse, and corruption. Big insurance companies are rewarded with direct payments. Hardworking taxpayers are left holding the bill. There are no premiums, no deductibles, no income limit, and no accountability. Even families making $500,000 a year qualify. This is reckless, permanent new spending. The American people can\u2019t afford it.\n\n\u201cThe American people know it. The Washington Post knows it. Democrats lost the election. They lost their media allies. And now, they\u2019ve lost the argument.\u201d\n\n###", 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://www.barrasso.senate.gov/the-washington-post-editorial-board-the-shutdown-conversation-no-one-wants/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.5517640858888626, "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"}