{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.scott.senate.gov/media-center/press-releases/icymi-scott-talks-dems-spending-and-irs-plans-police-reform-on-americas-newsroom/", "ICYMI: Scott Talks Dems\u2019 Spending and IRS Plans, Police Reform on America\u2019s Newsroom", "2021-10-20", "2021", "2021-10", "Republican", "Senate", "SC", "Tim Scott", "S001184", "www.scott.senate.gov", "timscott", "https://www.scott.senate.gov/media-center/press-releases/jsf/jet-engine:press-list", "scraper", "WASHINGTON \u2013 Today, U.S. Senator Tim Scott (R-S.C.) joined Bill Hemmer and Dana Perino on Fox News to discuss how the Democrats\u2019 reckless spending spree, and their plan to pay for it by enlarging the IRS, will harm American families. He also pushed back on efforts to nationalize and defund law enforcement.\n\nClick to watch Senator Scott\u2019s interview\n\nOn Democrats\u2019 reckless spending \u2026 \u201cThere\u2019s no way this is going to cost zero for the American people. Here\u2019s what we know: A $2 trillion [bill] \u2014 or the largest tax increase in American history \u2014 is not free. \u2026 [The] cost to the average American family goes through the ceiling, [with] tens of thousands of dollars of additional debt being added to every single household in America. This is failed leadership and a one-way ticket to socialism. \u2026 it only helps hook more people on a government paycheck. That\u2019s bad for their futures; it\u2019s bad for their kids.\u201d\n\n\u201cHere\u2019s what I know about government handouts: If you can do it yourself, you should. If you cannot, it\u2019s a different question. \u2026 [This plan would] get more people disconnected from work [and] more dependent on the government, and that\u2019s bad for their lives.\u201d\n\nOn Democrats moving their proposed threshold for the IRS to investigate accounts from $600 to $10,000 \u2026 \u201c$600 versus $10,000 sounds like a big jump. Unfortunately, if you are a minimum wage earner in America, your account\u2019s [information] would still be transferred to the IRS. In other words, if you have an $800 monthly payment for your rent, you have $400 in food for the entire year, [that makes] $10,000. \u2026 [It\u2019s] not a concession because Republicans aren\u2019t even allowed to be part of the negotiations.\u201d\n\nOn police reform efforts and providing proper resources \u2026 \u201cI\u2019m still at the table. Two years in a row [the Democrats] walked away. More importantly, what they wanted to do were two fundamental things I completely disagree with. Number one is to nationalize all local police. That is not the American way. And number two, there were 11 sections that either reduced funding [or] made departments ineligible for funding, and that to me means defunding the police by a [thousand little] cuts.\u201d\n\n\u201cIn the end, change requires resources. We cannot ask police officers to go into some very dangerous situations without the equipment or the manpower. [There are] almost 400 vacancies in Baltimore city right now because they can\u2019t recruit officers. You don\u2019t demonize, demoralize, and defund police and then ask for better policing.\u201d\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T20:24:51Z"]], "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.scott.senate.gov/media-center/press-releases/icymi-scott-talks-dems-spending-and-irs-plans-police-reform-on-americas-newsroom/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.638192217797041, "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"}