{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.cornyn.senate.gov/news/on-fox-cornyn-praises-trump-admins-venezuela-boat-strikes-condemns-rise-in-antisemitism-slams-dems-unaffordable-care-act/", "On Fox, Cornyn Praises Trump Admin\u2019s Venezuela Boat Strikes, Condemns Rise in Antisemitism, Slams Dems\u2019 Unaffordable Care Act", "2025-12-16", "2025", "2025-12", "Republican", "Senate", "TX", "John Cornyn", "C001056", "www.cornyn.senate.gov", "cornyn", "https://www.cornyn.senate.gov/news/", "scraper", "WASHINGTON \u2013 Today on Fox News\u2019 The Faulkner Focus, U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) praised the Trump administration, including Secretary of War Pete Hegseth and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, for its handling of the Venezuela boat strikes following a Senate-wide briefing, condemned the Australia terror attack and rise in antisemitism, and blasted Democrats for trying to deflect blame for the abject failures of Obamacare. Excerpts of Sen. Cornyn\u2019s remarks are below, and video can be found here.\n\nOn Administration\u2019s Briefing on Venezuela Boat Strikes:\n\n\u201cThe briefers, Secretary Rubio, Secretary Hegseth, and others did a good job of explaining the careful planning that went into these strikes and the legal justification, which is consistent, as Senator Graham has said, with other previous interventions by other administrations in the region. Cocaine, fentanyl \u2013 these are weapons of mass destruction being trafficked by designated terrorist organizations.\u201d\n\n\u201cI was satisfied with what I heard and I\u2019m glad President Trump is doing what needs to be done in order to save American lives.\u201d\n\nOn Australia Terror Attack:\n\n\u201cTragically, this is another horrible reminder there are sleeper cells of basically terrorists that have either been radicalized overseas or have been radicalized in place, who are willing to kill innocent people, and of course, in this instance, targeting the Jewish community.\u201d\n\n\u201cThere has been a rise of antisemitism that needs to be rebuked by the Left and the Right because it is unacceptable.\u201d\n\n\u201cThis is a very sad, sad occasion, but it unfortunately means we need to maintain our vigilance. Thank goodness here in the United States, the FBI and the Department of Justice are doing a good job disrupting terrorist plots, but this could happen anywhere.\u201d\n\nOn Democrats\u2019 Health Care Lies:\n\n\u201cDemocrats are trying to deflect the blame. They are the ones that created this situation, where the premiums and the Affordable Care Act or Obamacare exchanges are going up 18% this next year. That\u2019s unsustainable.\u201d\n\n\u201cPresident Trump is correct to say let\u2019s send the money to the consumer and not to the insurance companies.\u201d\n\n\u201cWe need to continue to hold the Democrats\u2019 feet to the fire because they created this mess in the first place, but now we\u2019re all obligated to try to fix it.\u201d", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T20:09:11Z"]], "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.cornyn.senate.gov/news/on-fox-cornyn-praises-trump-admins-venezuela-boat-strikes-condemns-rise-in-antisemitism-slams-dems-unaffordable-care-act/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.490302151069045, "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"}