{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.daines.senate.gov/2025/11/06/daines-on-fox-business-time-to-go-on-offense-against-narco-terrorists-as-well-as-end-the-government-shutdown/", "Daines on Fox Business: Time to Go on Offense Against Narco-Terrorists as Well as End the Government Shutdown", "2025-11-06", "2025", "2025-11", "Republican", "Senate", "MT", "Steve Daines", "D000618", "www.daines.senate.gov", "daines", "https://www.daines.senate.gov/news/press-releases/", "scraper", "U.S. SENATE \u2013 U.S. Senator Steve Daines today joined Fox Business to discuss President Trump\u2019s ongoing action against narco-terrorists. Daines also spoke about the ongoing shutdown and what it will take to reopen the government.\n\nWatch the full interview HERE.\n\nDaines on President Trump\u2019s aggressive action against narco-terrorists:\n\nRemember the problem that we face in this country. About 25,000 Americans die from cocaine deaths alone [every year], and that probably underestimates the other crime and murders going on because of cartels and drugs. Talk to members of local law enforcement around the country. They will tell you it\u2019s drugs that are driving most of the violent crime in this country. Remember, under Joe Biden\u2019s watch, cocaine deaths in this country rose 85 percent. And let\u2019s not forget that President Maduro has been indicted by the Department of Justice as a narco-terrorist. If you think about how to win a fight, how to win a war, you can\u2019t do it simply by playing defense. You\u2019ve got to play offense. And I applaud President Trump\u2019s aggressive actions, taking out these boats, taking out these narco-terrorists. That is protecting our country and saving lives.\n\nDaines on America\u2019s renewed strength under President Trump:\n\nPresident Trump inherited terrible policies and outcomes coming from President Biden, and [President Trump] is back on the offense. You\u2019ve got to come back to why is the United States respected again? It\u2019s because of President Trump. It is truly about the strength that President Trump projects, both in terms of who he is as a leader, as well as using the U.S. military, whether it\u2019s economic force, whether it\u2019s military force. America is back again, and we\u2019ll be safer because of it.\n\nDaines on the government shutdown and what it will take to end it:\n\nWell, it\u2019s not about Schumer now. It\u2019s about five to 10 more moderate commonsense Democrats who will break from Chuck Schumer. We\u2019ve seen cracks developing now amongst the Democrat senators. I\u2019m grateful for those maybe five to ten brave Democrats who will join us to stop this nonsense. But we always knew they were going to have to push this probably through that No Kings rally, through the election on Tuesday, you know, these purple states, blue states, certainly of Virginia, New Jersey, and then the New York mayor race. And then they want to set the record. So, yep, they got the record. Yesterday was day 36. That breaks the all-time record. Give them a gold medal for the longest shutdown in American history of the government. Now it\u2019s time to talk common sense. We\u2019ve got to put these Senate Democrats in a witness protection program right now because the far-left will absolutely vilify them for deciding to work with us to open the government back up. And look, as Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy said, we\u2019re going to see a 10 percent reduction in air traffic starting tomorrow. It is time to stop the nonsense and open things back up. I\u2019m cautiously optimistic right now that common sense will prevail, and we\u2019ll get this thing opened up sooner versus later.\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.daines.senate.gov/2025/11/06/daines-on-fox-business-time-to-go-on-offense-against-narco-terrorists-as-well-as-end-the-government-shutdown/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.8186700288206339, "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"}