{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.murray.senate.gov/senator-murray-remarks-on-averting-shutdown-democrats-fight-to-deliver-for-families-in-spending-bills/", "Senator Murray Remarks on Averting Shutdown & Democrats\u2019 Fight to Deliver for Families in Spending Bills", "2026-08-04", "2026", "2026-08", "Democrat", "Senate", "WA", "Patty Murray", "M001111", "www.murray.senate.gov", "murray", "https://www.murray.senate.gov/category/press-releases/", "scraper", "***WATCH: Senator Murray\u2019s full remarks***\n\nWashington, D.C. \u2014 Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Vice Chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, delivered the following remarks at the Senate Democratic leadership press conference on the Senate advancing the bipartisan continuing resolution (CR), which extends government funding through December 11.\n\nSenator Murray\u2019s remarks, as delivered, are below:\n\n\u201cWell, as last night\u2019s vote made clear: no one wants a shutdown. It is a good thing we were able to come together to produce a reasonable CR that addresses some key problems with the CR that the House Republicans passed and that will give us the runway we need to reach a bipartisan agreement on funding levels\u2014and then negotiate the bills for the coming year.\n\n\u201cThe bill closes the loophole in the Republicans\u2019 bill, which would have allowed funding to be transferred to the Border Patrol. No reforms; no new money\u2014it\u2019s that simple.\n\n\u201cThe CR also adds important language to extend authorization for key programs and ensures there is enough funding to\u2014for example\u2014make sure low-income seniors have food on their tables.\n\n\u201cIt rejects the wish list President Trump requested for the Pentagon. There\u2019s no funding for so-called \u2018Trump-class\u2019 battleships, for example, and this bill does nothing to fulfill his $70 billion request to bankroll his disastrous Iran war.\n\n\u201cThanks to Democrats, this bill will block OMB\u2019s corrupt new grants rule from taking effect for the duration of the CR. What Trump and Russ Vought want is the ability to take every federal grant in America hostage. They are not interested in making our tax dollars work better\u2014they just want them to work for Donald Trump. Cancer research, bridges, hospitals\u2014under [this] rule, a Trump appointee could decide to strip funding for almost anything. No cause. No notice. No appeal.\n\n\u201cSo, Democrats said no way. Every single Senate Democrat joined me in demanding OMB withdraw the rule.\n\n\u201cToday, it is on ice. I did try to stop this rule outright in the negotiations, but my Republican colleagues wouldn\u2019t agree to do that. This rule is delayed; it is not dead\u2014I absolutely intend to kill it.\n\n\u201cRepublicans also rejected our efforts to prevent Russ Vought from attempting an illegal \u2018pocket rescission\u2019\u2014protecting Congress\u2019 constitutional power of the purse, as well as our push to extend the critical advanced appropriations provided by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, which will expire on October 1.\n\n\u201cSo this isn\u2019t the end\u2014 we\u2019ve got a lot of work to do, and I\u2019m going to keep pushing.\n\n\u201cAnd the CR we overwhelmingly voted to advance last night will allow us to keep the government funded while those conversations continue. Because make no mistake: we have a lot of work ahead of us to do.\n\n\u201cWhen it comes to this year\u2019s spending bills, Democrats have one north star: making life affordable again. This president\u2014and Republicans\u2014have other ideas.\n\n\u201cTrump wants a $1.5 trillion war budget and cuts to domestic programs. Senate Republicans are doing their darnedest to meet the president\u2019s request. So far, they have proposed an absolutely massive increase for the Pentagon with offers that would provide over four new defense dollars for every new dollar invested in our communities here at home.\n\n\u201cSenate Democrats have made it very clear that is not going to fly.\n\n\u201cSo, I\u2019m ready, as ever, to use the time this CR provides to reach a reasonable bipartisan topline funding agreement which will allow us to negotiate strong bipartisan funding bills. That is our job. It is what our families back home expect of us. I\u2019m ready to get it done.\u201d\n\n###", 1, "2026-08-05T07:37:37Z", "2026-08-05T07:38:44Z"]], "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/senator-murray-remarks-on-averting-shutdown-democrats-fight-to-deliver-for-families-in-spending-bills/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 2.749521052464843, "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"}