{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.murray.senate.gov/republican-shutdown-day-28-senator-murray-blasts-republicans-for-ignoring-families-being-priced-out-of-health-insurance-refusing-to-join-democrats-at-the-negotiating-table-to-reopen-government/", "REPUBLICAN SHUTDOWN DAY 28: Senator Murray Blasts Republicans for Ignoring Families Being Priced Out of Health Insurance, Refusing to Join Democrats at the Negotiating Table to Reopen Government", "2025-10-28", "2025", "2025-10", "Democrat", "Senate", "WA", "Patty Murray", "M001111", "www.murray.senate.gov", "murray", "https://www.murray.senate.gov/category/press-releases/", "scraper", "AP: 6 in 10 Americans are \u201cextremely\u201d or \u201cvery\u201d concerned about their health costs going up in the next year\n\n***WATCH: Senator Murray\u2019s Remarks***\n\nWashington, D.C. \u2013 Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Vice Chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, delivered the following remarks on government funding at this afternoon\u2019s Senate Democratic leadership press conference on the twenty-eighth day of President Trump and Republicans\u2019 shutdown.\n\nSenator Murray\u2019s remarks, as delivered, are below:\n\n\u201cRight now, families are window shopping for their health insurance coverage next year and seeing their premiums are set to double, triple, and in some cases, even quadruple.\n\n\u201cWhy? Because Republicans are refusing to so much as negotiate about saving the ACA tax credits. And on Saturday, a few days from now, things will get very real for families\u2014because open enrollment begins.\n\n\u201cRepublicans keep saying, \u2018later, later, later,\u2019 but there is no later. This is happening right now.\n\n\u201cRepublicans keep saying, \u2018we\u2019ll talk about, maybe, possibly doing something after the shutdown ends.\u2019 But they were totally unwilling to say or do a thing this entire year when the government was open!\n\n\u201cIt is painfully clear that Republicans are not listening to folks back at home. Because what families nationwide are saying is: \u2018Please stop my premiums from doubling.\u2019 And what Republican leaders are saying? \u2018Not our problem, we never wanted to lower health care costs in the first place.\u2019\n\n\u201cYou know, people back home are saying: \u2018Please help! I am going to be priced out of my health insurance.\u2019 And some Republicans here are saying, essentially: \u2018If only Democrats never protected those pre-existing conditions and never expanded Medicaid, we\u2019d all be better off!\u2019\n\n\u201cSee, Democrats think it is a problem that people are going to lose their health coverage. Meanwhile, some Republicans seem to think it\u2019s a problem that people got covered in the first place. Genuinely, some of my colleagues across the aisle can\u2019t open their mouth without saying, \u2018repeal Obamacare.\u2019\n\n\u201cMaybe that\u2019s why Republican leaders are more serious about avoiding the health care debate than they have ever been about funding the government. House Republicans have been on vacation for six weeks in a row. They\u2019re scared to negotiate, and scared to stand up to Trump, who\u2019s even joking he\u2019s the Speaker of the House now.\n\n\u201cAs for Trump\u2019s shutdown approach, he is gleefully firing people en masse, he is gloating over cutting \u2018Democrat\u2019 priorities, shoveling $40 billion at Argentina\u2014while refusing to tap emergency funds for SNAP benefits and letting kids go hungry.\n\n\u201cNot to mention, he is obliterating the East Wing of the White House for his gold-plated ballroom, he is raising taxes on Americans out of spite, he is asking taxpayers to pay him a quarter of a billion dollars, and, all the while, posting nonstop AI slop, anti-vaxx nonsense, and more.\n\n\u201cIt is very obvious Trump doesn\u2019t care about ending this shutdown, or stopping massive premium hikes. I mean, if Republicans passed their partisan CR, President Trump is not even in the country to sign it. Does that sound like a president interested in ending this shutdown? Does that sound like a president who actually cares if millions of families lose that health care coverage?\n\n\u201cIt\u2019s long past time for Republican leaders to get serious. Get serious! I could not be more frustrated that they refuse to fix this so we can reopen the government, and save our families from Republicans\u2019 health care crisis.\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.murray.senate.gov/republican-shutdown-day-28-senator-murray-blasts-republicans-for-ignoring-families-being-priced-out-of-health-insurance-refusing-to-join-democrats-at-the-negotiating-table-to-reopen-government/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 2.774338237941265, "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"}