{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.cornyn.senate.gov/news/video-on-fox-cornyn-discusses-doge-pam-bondi-meeting/", "VIDEO: On Fox, Cornyn Discusses DOGE, Pam Bondi Meeting", "2024-12-05", "2024", "2024-12", "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) discussed ways Republicans can work with the incoming Trump administration to rein in spending and get our economy back on track, including his role as a founding member of the Senate DOGE Caucus, as well as his meeting with Pam Bondi, whom President-Elect Trump has announced he will nominate to serve as U.S. Attorney General. Excerpts of Sen. Cornyn\u2019s remarks are below, and video can be found here.\n\nOn GOP 2025 Economic Agenda:\n\n\u201cWe all know this is a change election.\u201d\n\n\u201cThe American people felt like the country was heading in the wrong direction, and one of those big reasons is because of inflation\u2026 because the size of the federal government, and $36 trillion in debt.\u201d\n\n\u201cThe federal government has gotten bigger and more bloated as it\u2019s taken on more responsibility, but that\u2019s because of the taxing power the federal government has.\u201d\n\n\u201cIn a very dangerous world, perhaps the most dangerous we\u2019ve seen since World War II, we are on a path where we\u2019re now spending more money on interest on the national debt than we are on defense. We have to fix that.\u201d\n\nOn Senate DOGE Caucus:\n\n\u201cRaising the visibility of this issue, as Elon [Musk] and Vivek [Ramaswamy] have done, I think will give us an opportunity to try to find some consensus.\u201d\n\n\u201cWe need to rack and stack our priorities where we can have the biggest impact quickly, but this is a small window of opportunity now.\u201d\n\n\u201cCongress has tried to kick the can down the road on some of the hard decisions, which are where we should cut and where we should seek efficiencies, but frankly, Martha, we have run out of road to kick that can down.\u201d\n\n\u201cI\u2019m really excited about the opportunity we have now.\u201d\n\nOn Meeting with Attorney General Nominee Pam Bondi:\n\n\u201cWe both share a desire to restore [the] most fundamental institutions like the Department of Justice and FBI into nonpolitical entities.\u201d\n\n\u201cPeople now don\u2019t trust the FBI, they don\u2019t trust the Department of Justice to be impartial.\u201d\n\n\u201cI know she is committed to doing that, and I intend to do everything I can to help her.\u201d", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T19:07:19Z"]], "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/video-on-fox-cornyn-discusses-doge-pam-bondi-meeting/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.6051060520112514, "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"}