{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.padilla.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/padilla-statement-on-trump-and-republican-shutdown/", "Padilla Statement on Trump and Republican Shutdown", "2025-09-30", "2025", "2025-09", "Democrat", "Senate", "CA", "Alex Padilla", "P000145", "www.padilla.senate.gov", "padilla", "https://www.padilla.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/", "scraper", "WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2014 Today, U.S. Senator Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) issued the following statement after President Trump and Senate Republicans refused to pass Democrats\u2019 continuing resolution that would have protected health care coverage for millions of Americans while averting a government shutdown:\n\n\u201cRepublicans have control of Congress and the White House. But rather than negotiate with Democrats, Republicans have sent the House of Representatives home, canceled planned White House meetings until the eleventh hour, told Democrats to \u2018go f*** yourself,\u2019 and posted a racist AI video of Democratic leaders trying to avoid a shutdown.\n\n\u201cHealth care costs are soaring for Americans across the country as a direct result of the Trump Administration\u2019s policies. Republicans funneled trillions of dollars into tax breaks for billionaires, but now they claim they can\u2019t find the money to make life a little more affordable for working families. Because of their cruelty, more than 20 million Americans \u2014 including 1.7 million Californians \u2014 could be priced out of their insurance plans ahead of open enrollment next month.\n\n\u201cThe way out of a shutdown is for the President and Republican leaders to finally negotiate with Democrats in good faith to immediately reopen the government and protect Americans\u2019 health care.\u201d\n\nLast week, Senator Padilla joined California health care leaders in Los Angeles to call on congressional Republicans to work with Democrats to protect health care coverage for nearly 1.7 million California residents and avoid a Republican-caused government shutdown. Californians and Americans across the country are facing the largest health insurance premium increases in 15 years and rising costs as a result of President Trump\u2019s chaotic tariffs and catastrophic economic agenda, but Republicans are refusing to extend essential Affordable Care Act tax credits before they expire at the end of the year. These credits helped a record 24 million Americans enroll in Affordable Care Act exchanges this year.\n\nSenator Padilla has consistently fought against Trump and Republicans\u2019 budget reconciliation bill that makes reckless cuts to health care in order to hand out tax cuts to billionaires. In July, Padilla blasted Senate Republicans\u2019 passage of the bill that will kick 15 million Americans off their health care, shutter rural hospitals across the country, gut critical programs, and explode the debt by over $3.5 trillion.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T19:10:29Z"]], "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.padilla.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/padilla-statement-on-trump-and-republican-shutdown/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.1188369244337082, "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"}