{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.murray.senate.gov/murray-on-gao-concluding-trumps-pocket-rescission-is-illegal/", "Murray on GAO Concluding Trump\u2019s Pocket Rescission is Illegal", "2026-09-29", "2026", "2026-09", "Democrat", "Senate", "WA", "Patty Murray", "M001111", "www.murray.senate.gov", "murray", "https://www.murray.senate.gov/category/press-releases/", "scraper", "ICYMI: Murray Slams Trump for Illegal Impoundment\n\nWashington, D.C. \u2014 Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray, Vice Chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, issued the following statement on the Government Accountability Office\u2019s (GAO) concluding today that President Trump\u2019s latest attempt to impound funding approved by Congress is illegal.\n\n\u201cPresident Trump is breaking the law and stealing from the American taxpayer. He knows it, and the top nonpartisan government watchdog just confirmed what we\u2019ve known all along: this so-called pocket rescission scheme is illegal. This is a con and nothing short of an assault on our Constitution.\n\n\u201cThe question is not whether this is illegal; it\u2019s whether Republicans will finally join Democrats to defend Congress\u2019 power of the purse and ensure our constituents get the investments they are owed by law. If Republicans continue to allow a president to treat our votes and our laws like a suggestion, that\u2019s what they will become.\u201d\n\nOn Friday night, President Trump announced his intention to permanently impound over $800 million in congressionally-approved funding by allowing the funds to expire at the end of the fiscal year and before Congress has the opportunity to act on his rescission request. This includes resources for lifesaving health research, important education programs, housing, and more.\n\nDemocrats have repeatedly sought to bar the Trump administration from so much as attempting this illegal maneuver\u2014when marking up draft Senate spending bills, in votes on the floor, and in negotiations over spending packages, including negotiations over the continuing resolution that was recently signed into law.\n\n###", 1, "2026-09-30T10:57:52Z", "2026-09-30T10:59:04Z"]], "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.murray.senate.gov/murray-on-gao-concluding-trumps-pocket-rescission-is-illegal/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.0726689361035824, "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"}