{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.britt.senate.gov/news/press-releases/icymi-u-s-senator-katie-britt-joins-squawk-box-on-cnbc-to-discuss-leading-role-in-shutdown-negotiations/", "ICYMI: U.S. Senator Katie Britt Joins Squawk Box on CNBC to Discuss Leading Role in Shutdown Negotiations", "2025-11-06", "2025", "2025-11", "Republican", "Senate", "AL", "Katie Boyd Britt", "B001319", "www.britt.senate.gov", "britt", "https://www.britt.senate.gov/media/press-releases/", "scraper", "Senate Democrats are acting \u2018selfish and shortsighted\u2019\n\nWASHINGTON, D.C. \u2014 U.S. Senator Katie Britt (R-Ala.) joined Squawk Box on CNBC to discuss the longest-ever Democrat-led government shutdown\u2014now spanning 37 days\u2014and its adverse effects on millions of Americans. Senator Britt spoke on Democrats\u2019 continued obstruction that led to a government shutdown and her leadership in negotiating a pathway forward.\n\nOn working across the aisle and within the Republican party to negotiate a pathway forward to reopen the government:\n\n\u201cWe are working with other members\u2026 both within our party and across the aisle \u2026 [Y]ou can\u2019t break a logjam without having conversation. And so, sitting down with Senator Schumer and talking about that, we really need to get back to doing the work of the American people \u2026 These three bills, Joe, are essential. They are SNAP benefits. They are WIC benefits. They are military VA, the Veterans Affairs. You\u2019ve also got Capitol Police and others that would be in this package. If we\u2019re able to pass these bills, it takes those things off the table for the remainder of the fiscal year, actually funding them and doing the job that the people sent us here to do.\n\n\u201cSo, all of that starts with [a] conversation. [I] have been really pleased to be able to work with people on the other side of the aisle that want to see a pathway forward, [and] have been in talks with the White House and leadership and working in between those to try to actually open this up for the American people and get back to doing our job.\u201d\n\nOn her role in negotiating a possible path to ending the shutdown:\n\n\u201cSo, this three-bill package has passed the Senate, it passed at the end of July. That was actually the first time we passed these types of appropriations bills and since about 2018 on the Senate floor. So really showing that we meant business and wanted to get things done \u2026 Look, obviously there has been talk and Leader Thune has said both publicly and to members of the Democratic Party that he will absolutely give them a vote on ACA. That\u2019s nothing new \u2026 So, we\u2019ve got a lot of work ahead of us, but this would give us a vehicle to be able to move that and to be able to extend that CR date. And look, Joe, it\u2019s important that our Democratic colleagues come to the table.\u201d\n\nOn this week\u2019s election results and the impact it may have on the shutdown:\n\n\u201cI have heard a lot of stuff in the last 24 hours about, well, maybe they\u2019ll wait another week because they won in the election. Joe, I think that is completely selfish and shortsighted. I think winning blue seats in blue states is nothing remarkable. But what is remarkable is the impact that this is having on average Americans, normal people, people who are having to go to food banks, Joe, people who are not getting paychecks. I can\u2019t imagine the arrogance that it would take to walk past Capitol policemen that aren\u2019t getting those paychecks, and then not wanting to find a pathway forward.\u201d\n\nOn supporting President Trump\u2019s agenda to serve the American people and his frustration with the shutdown:\n\n\u201cObviously, [President Trump] has a robust agenda, and it is on us to work to get that through, and we are absolutely committed to doing that \u2026 we do have pathways that we can pursue that ultimately help us achieve his goal. But I think everyone is in conversation because what we\u2019re seeing is unprecedented obstruction by Democrats. We saw that on the nomination process, Joe \u2026 You saw them let no nominees go through this Congress by voice vote or unanimous consent for President Trump and at the very same time in the \u2026 calendar year for Obama in his first year, he had 292 that went through. So, we\u2019re seeing this unprecedented level of obstruction. And unfortunately \u2026 that causes this institution to break. So, all things are on the table and we\u2019re trying to find a pathway forward.\u201d\n\nYou can watch the full segment here.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T19:52:45Z"]], "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.britt.senate.gov/news/press-releases/icymi-u-s-senator-katie-britt-joins-squawk-box-on-cnbc-to-discuss-leading-role-in-shutdown-negotiations/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.9618399199098349, "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"}