{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.booker.senate.gov/news/press/as-trump-shutdown-drags-on-booker-demands-action-to-stop-looming-health-care-crisis-we-have-to-come-together-to-lower-health-care-costs-for-the-american-people", "As Trump Shutdown Drags On, Booker Demands Action to Stop Looming Health Care Crisis: \u201cWe have to come together to lower health care costs for the American people\u201d", "2025-10-10", "2025", "2025-10", "Democrat", "Senate", "NJ", "Cory A. Booker", "B001288", "www.booker.senate.gov", "booker", "https://www.booker.senate.gov/news/press", "scraper", "In case you missed it, U.S. Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) is continuing to hear from New Jerseyans, release new digital videos, and appear in digital and traditional media interviews to stand up against the Trump shutdown and share how Democrats are fighting to save Americans\u2019 health care. While Republicans refuse to work across the aisle on a government funding bill to reopen the government and address the health care crisis they have manufactured, Booker is making his position clear: \u201cI will continue to stand up for the people of our state and demand a resolution to the shutdown that addresses their spiking health care costs, no matter how long or how tough the fight\u201d\n\nBooker Hosts Virtual Shutdown Town Hall With Hundreds of New Jerseyans\n\nOctober 10, 2025\n\nSen Booker: \u201cI heard from New Jerseyans up and down our state who are worried about the looming tsunami of higher health care prices, at a time when their costs are going up on everything from groceries to energy. Americans want Republicans to drop the excuses, come to the negotiating table, and work with Democrats to pass a government funding bill that will address the looming tsunami of higher health care prices and get our government open. Working families in New Jersey should not be forced to choose between bankruptcy or their medicines, but that is the health care crisis Republicans have manufactured with their government shutdown.\n\nPIX11\n\nOctober 9, 2025\n\nSen. Booker: \u201cI\u2019m proud to stand up for New Jerseyans facing rising costs in the Senate, but the Republicans in the House are refusing to even show up. We have to come together to lower healthcare costs for the American people.\u201d\n\nFox5\n\nOctober 9, 2025\n\nSen. Booker \u201cWe are fighting really hard to deal with what Americans, and frankly, in my state, New Jerseyans are yelling about: their health care costs are going up and their premiums in general are about to double. We are seeing hundreds of thousands of people in my state face a health care nightmare, and we just want them to come to the table and do something with us to end that pain.\u201d\n\nCNN The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer\n\nOctober 8, 2025\n\nSen. Booker: \u201cWhat we have seen for the last four years, why there was no government shutdown, when Democrats controlled the House, the Senate, and the White House, is they brought all the parties to the table, and we did it in a bipartisan process. Donald Trump controls the White House. He has the most complicit set of Republicans in the House and the Senate. He controls them both. He has said in his own words in the past, it is up for the president of the United States to bring the parties together and get a budget passed. So to be saying that this is the Democrats is utterly wrong.\u201d\n\n@SenBooker\n\nOctober 8, 2025\n\nSen. Booker: \u201cEven Marjorie Taylor Greene agrees there\u2019s a problem, that we have a health care crisis in this country of Donald Trump\u2019s creation. Their doing nothing is being complicit in the pain and the hurt and the fear that Americans have about seeing their premiums going up or losing their health care.\u201d\n\nWNYC The Brian Lehrer Show\n\nOctober 8, 2025\n\nSen. Booker \u201cI've talked to board members for hospitals up and down New Jersey, many of them Republicans, that say, \"You can't let this happen. We'll have to cut services.\" There'll be longer wait lines at hospital emergency rooms, because people without insurance will be using those emergency rooms as their primary care physicians, so we are standing strong on this simple thing. You control everything. If you want to get a budget done, do it like we've done it the last years, in a bipartisan manner. We know we're not going to get everything, but we're fighting to lower people's health care costs. Come to the table, and work with us on that.\u201d\n\nThe Dan Le Batard Show\n\nOctober 8, 2025\n\nSen Booker: \u201cThe Democratic Party needs a reboot. We need to stop talking about what we are against but rather what we are for. We are for workers. We are for families that are struggling to raise their kids right now. And we are for an American dream that is under its worst assault.\u201d\n\nCNN Anderson Cooper 360\n\nOctober 6, 2025\n\nSen. Booker: \u201cWe are a country whose story is one of people, even in the midst of despair, choosing to be agents of hope through their willingness to stand up. Donald Trump is a dark force in our country, but he cannot diminish our light and the strength of that light is magnified and multiplied when more of us come together.\u201d\n\nABC\u2019s This Week\n\nOctober 5, 2025\n\nSen Booker: \u201dI can tell you right now, I represent New Jersey. Up and down my state, people are afraid. People are hurting. People who run hospitals, who run clinics are saying there is a tsunami coming to this state, this nation.\n\n\u201cWe have to stand up and fight right now. This is a time where we all should be coming together to do something to alleviate the rising costs, the loss of health care, and the pain that Americans are about to get hit with.\u201d\n\nSee also:\n\n10/1: Booker Statement on Trump Shutdown", 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.booker.senate.gov/news/press/as-trump-shutdown-drags-on-booker-demands-action-to-stop-looming-health-care-crisis-we-have-to-come-together-to-lower-health-care-costs-for-the-american-people"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.9645670652389526, "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"}