{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.hydesmith.senate.gov/hyde-smith-blasts-schumers-reckless-dangerous-games-shutdown-enters-fourth-week", "HYDE-SMITH BLASTS SCHUMER\u2019S \u2018RECKLESS & DANGEROUS\u2019 GAMES AS SHUTDOWN ENTERS FOURTH WEEK", "2025-10-22", "2025", "2025-10", "Republican", "Senate", "MS", "Cindy Hyde-Smith", "H001079", "www.hydesmith.senate.gov", "hydesmith", "https://www.hydesmith.senate.gov/newsroom", "scraper", "Miss. Senator Says Republicans Ready to Work, Questions When Senate Democrats Will Be\n\nVIDEO: Senator Hyde-Smith Knocks Senate Democrats as Government Shutdown Enters Fourth Week.\n\nWASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) today castigated Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer for pulling \u201creckless and dangerous\u201d political stunts instead of allowing Senators to vote to end a harmful federal government shutdown that is now going into its fourth week.\n\nHyde-Smith, who serves on the Senate Appropriations Committee, again called on Senate Democrats to accept a straightforward continuing resolution (CR) that would reopen government and allow congressional appropriators to continue working on the FY2026 funding bills. The Senator also dismissed the Democratic alternative CR as costly and unserious.\n\nThe following is Senator Hyde-Smith\u2019s statement as Democrats have kept the government closed for 22 days as of today, harming millions of Americans across the country:\n\n\u201cWe are now, unfortunately, headed into the fourth week of the Schumer shutdown. Essential government services are being disrupted. Federal workers aren\u2019t getting paid. The very people Democrats claim to care about are the ones being hurt the most. Why? Because Democrats keep turning simple decisions into political stunts.\n\n\u201cRepublicans have asked for one thing: a straightforward continuing resolution to keep the government open while appropriators do their jobs. That\u2019s it.\n\n\u201cWhat are the Democrats demanding instead? Free healthcare for illegal immigrants; $1.4 trillion in new spending; your hard-earned tax dollars for overseas woke projects; more COVID-era handouts; and a $50 billion cut to rural hospitals.\n\n\u201cThis isn\u2019t a serious proposal. And it shows that they didn\u2019t hear, or don\u2019t care about, the message the American people sent last November.\n\n\u201cBut not all Democrats are going along with it. A few have had the courage to cross the aisle and vote with Senate Republicans to reopen the government. They know Schumer\u2019s games are reckless and dangerous.\n\n\u201cAnd let\u2019s be clear: Should we be taking healthcare advice from the party that broke our system and sent costs soaring? This is the same crowd that says boys should compete in girls\u2019 sports, that the border was secure under Biden, and that he was in perfect health.\n\n\u201cThe Senate is here. Republicans are ready to work. The question is \u2013 when will Chuck Schumer be?\u201d\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T19:32:54Z"]], "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.hydesmith.senate.gov/hyde-smith-blasts-schumers-reckless-dangerous-games-shutdown-enters-fourth-week"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.0335501283407211, "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"}