{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.murray.senate.gov/republican-shutdown-day-35-senator-murray-slams-trump-for-refusing-to-fully-fund-snap-calls-out-republicans-for-doing-nothing-to-stop-maga-health-care-hike/", "REPUBLICAN SHUTDOWN DAY 35: Senator Murray Slams Trump for Refusing to Fully Fund SNAP, Calls Out Republicans for Doing Nothing to Stop MAGA Health Care Hike", "2025-11-04", "2025", "2025-11", "Democrat", "Senate", "WA", "Patty Murray", "M001111", "www.murray.senate.gov", "murray", "https://www.murray.senate.gov/category/press-releases/", "scraper", "REUTERS: Obamacare premiums double, adding post Halloween fright for US health insurance shoppers\n\nABC: Trump hosted \u2018Great Gatsby\u2019 Halloween party hours before SNAP funding lapsed\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 thirty-fifth day of President Trump and Republicans\u2019 shutdown.\n\nSenator Murray\u2019s remarks, as delivered, are below:\n\n\u201cAs we all know, right now, open enrollment is underway, and Americans are now seeing the true cost of the MAGA health care hike.\n\n\u201cAnd look, it\u2019s not just the \u2018MAGA health care hike\u2019 because Republican leaders are refusing to do anything. Four out of five people who rely on the ACA enhanced premium health care tax credits live in states that Trump won. That is why it\u2019s a MAGA health care hike.\n\n\u201cAnd over 80 percent of the people who will end up uninsured if these expire are in Trump states. That is why this is a MAGA health care hike.\n\n\u201cThe five states with the largest percentage increases, where premiums are quadrupling? All Trump states. The next five, where premiums are tripling? All Trump states. The next five after that? You guessed it, all Trump states. That is why this is a MAGA health care hike. But Republicans won\u2019t lift a finger.\n\n\u201cI have heard one painful story after the next. Dianne in Wenatchee said she is going to see her premium increase by fourteen hundred dollars a month. Damian told me his family faces a $2,000 monthly increase.\n\n\u201cAnd that\u2019s just my state. A senior in Idaho told me his premium is increasing nearly eightfold. There\u2019s a woman in Tennessee whose premium will jump from $10 a month to well over a thousand.\n\n\u201cEvery day, the MAGA health care hike gets harder to fix. But the House is on vacation\u2014seven weeks and counting! Republican leaders are openly saying, \u2018Don\u2019t look to us, we never wanted to lower health care costs in the first place.\u2019\n\n\u201cAs for President Trump, he\u2019s throwing a blow-out Gatsby party down in Mar-a-Lago. He is pardoning people who helped terrorists launder money\u2014all while he refuses to work on reopening the government, and actively chooses to break the law and ignore the courts to force 42 million Americans to go hungry.\n\n\u201cRemember, USDA had a plan to keep SNAP running longer, even before this shutdown started. Then Trump scrapped it, pulled it off their website. And now he\u2019s proudly posting about blocking SNAP. I mean, he\u2019s basically taking credit, promising it won\u2019t go out.\n\n\u201cAnd as Speaker Johnson put it\u2014they don\u2019t want to release the \u2018pressure.\u2019 They are using the American people as leverage.\n\n\u201cTrump still has the funds to keep benefits going out in full and on time right now. He is choosing not to use them\u2014all while he chooses to build himself a new ballroom.\n\n\u201cDo Republicans not realize that all those families who cannot afford to put food on the table, all those families facing the MAGA health care hike\u2014they are watching as Trump guilds his office in gold and bulldozes the East Wing to build a fancy new ballroom. As he jacks up costs for working families with tariffs and shovels billions at Argentina. And as he showers goodies, pardons, and party favors on his friends, and Republicans shower tax breaks on billionaires.\n\n\u201cThese families that are getting hurt are watching us. Their grocery bills rise, their premiums double, and the Republican lawmakers are doing nothing.\n\n\u201cRepublicans need to get it into their head: families will not forget this, because they are going to be paying the cost of the MAGA health care hike. Every. Single. Month.\n\n\u201cSo they need to get serious. They need to come to the table. And they need to work with us to stop the MAGA health care hike and reopen the government.\u201d\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.murray.senate.gov/republican-shutdown-day-35-senator-murray-slams-trump-for-refusing-to-fully-fund-snap-calls-out-republicans-for-doing-nothing-to-stop-maga-health-care-hike/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.7585291750729084, "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"}