{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.britt.senate.gov/news/press-releases/icymi-u-s-senator-katie-britt-joins-sunday-morning-futures-with-maria-bartiromo-on-fox-news/", "ICYMI: U.S. Senator Katie Britt Joins Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo on Fox News", "2025-11-17", "2025", "2025-11", "Republican", "Senate", "AL", "Katie Boyd Britt", "B001319", "www.britt.senate.gov", "britt", "https://www.britt.senate.gov/media/press-releases/", "scraper", "\u2018[T]he Democratic Party has lost its way, but Republicans are showing a pathway forward\u2019\n\nWASHINGTON, D.C. \u2014 U.S. Senator Katie Britt (R-Ala.) joined Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo on Fox News to discuss her role in reopening the government, Republicans\u2019 focus to address affordability, and how Democrats continue to let the radical left run their party.\n\nOn her role in negotiations that reopened the government after a historic 43-day shutdown:\n\n\u201cI was back home talking to people, listening to people on the weekends and the effects of this Schumer shutdown were real. It was clear that we saw the Democrats putting partisan politics and poll numbers above the people that they serve\u2026 You had people that were furloughed, people that were not obviously receiving a paycheck, were unable to make their mortgage or rent payments or car payments or, you know, childcare. I had people telling me about increases at food banks and the number of clients that were coming there. We heard about Head Starts closing, Maria. These had real consequences for real people.\n\n\u201cAnd yet Democrats \u2026 were demanding that people go without a paycheck so they could score political points, but yet they were still taking one themselves. I think that shows you that this was selfish and that it was centered on all of the wrong things. So for me, it was, how do we get the government back working and how do we make Congress operate in a way that actually achieves results for the American people? Because ultimately, that\u2019s what President Trump wants. He wants to achieve results for the people he serves. That\u2019s what he\u2019s been doing. And the Democrats were trying to thwart that. And we weren\u2019t going to let them do that.\u201d\n\nOn how Republicans continue to prioritize bringing down costs for Americans and addressing affordability:\n\n\u201c[W]e\u2019ve already been talking about affordability. You think about the Working Family Tax Cuts (Act), Maria, and all that we delivered for the American people. It was absolutely incredible. So, President Trump had campaigned on securing the border. He did that on day one. We were able to layer in more of that into the One Big Beautiful Bill \u2026 We talked about affordability and pushing money back to Americans pockets, whether it was the deductions for seniors \u2026 whether it was the child care tax credits that had not been updated, Maria, since Ronald Reagan (was president). President Trump delivered, pushing more of that hard earned money of Americans back into their pockets. We saw that with no tax on tips \u2026\n\n\u201cI think people will ultimately see the results of this package soon, and we\u2019ll continue to keep building on that, looking at affordability of housing and making sure that we\u2019re driving down energy costs and that we\u2019re delivering results for Americans.\u201d\n\nOn how Democrats continue to let the radical left wing run their party:\n\n\u201cI think if you look at what happened in the elections \u2026 we saw that the Democratic Party, the left wing, is no longer the left wing. It is in the driver\u2019s seat \u2026 You\u2019ve got to be crystal clear about who the Democratic Party is. You\u2019ve got a Democratic socialist that\u2019s going to be the mayor of this shining city on the hill in New York City. You look at who they elevated there as attorney general in Virginia, someone who talked about taking the life of an opponent and his children. It\u2019s absolutely disgusting and despicable, Maria. And so I think that the Democratic Party has lost its way, but Republicans are showing 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-sunday-morning-futures-with-maria-bartiromo-on-fox-news/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.5893569216132164, "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"}