{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.fischer.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/news?ID=A487B24D-33F5-4B1A-A482-8056A5F9B984", "ICYMI: Fischer Joins Fox Business to Talk DOGE, Cutting Spending", "2024-12-05", "2024", "2024-12", "Republican", "Senate", "NE", "Deb Fischer", "F000463", "www.fischer.senate.gov", "fischer", "https://www.fischer.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-releases", "scraper", "Today, U.S. Senator Deb Fischer (R-Neb.) appeared on \u201cCavuto: Coast to Coast\u201d to discuss President Trump\u2019s new Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and its mandate to reduce wasteful government spending. Senator Fischer emphasized the need to focus on the core responsibilities of the federal government and eliminate spending on unnecessary pet projects.\n\nIn the interview, Senator Fischer also addressed the challenge of working with Senate Democrats, urging the need to find those willing to stand up to wasteful spending and prioritize the interests of their constituents.\n\nClick the image above to watch video of Senator Fischer\u2019s remarks\n\nClick here to download audio\n\nClick here to download video\n\nOn working together to reduce wasteful spending:\n\n\u201cI think it\u2019s important that we\u2019re going to partner together to work with the administration. To work with people close to Donald Trump, and also to work together here as Republicans and Democrats, to deliver better results for the American people.\n\nAnd that really ties in with looking at how we\u2019re going to quit wasting taxpayer dollars. Find programs that work, focus on those, and find programs that don\u2019t work, and work to eliminate those.\u201d\n\nOn finding common ground with unlikely allies:\n\n\"I was really happy to see Senator Fetterman, Bernie Sanders. Not folks that I usually work with, but to be able to have a coming together of what we all should be interested in. And that\u2019s being able to prioritize taxpayer dollars on things that really are a duty of the federal government, and that have a true benefit to the American people.\u201d\n\nOn making progress in cutting wasteful spending:\n\n\"We have an administration where President Trump has been very forthright in making his views known, that that\u2019s what he wants to do. He wants to deliver for the American people on a variety of issues, and having a more effective and more efficient government is one of those.\u201d\n\n***", 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.fischer.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/news?ID=A487B24D-33F5-4B1A-A482-8056A5F9B984"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.504835905507207, "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"}