{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.smith.senate.gov/u-s-senator-tina-smiths-statement-on-president-trumps-political-attack-on-minnesotas-energy-infrastructure/", "U.S. Senator Tina Smith\u2019s Statement on President Trump\u2019s Political Attack on Minnesota\u2019s Energy Infrastructure", "2025-10-03", "2025", "2025-10", "Democrat", "Senate", "MN", "Tina Smith", "S001203", "www.smith.senate.gov", "tinasmith", "https://www.smith.senate.gov/media/press-releases/", "scraper", "WASHINGTON, DC \u2013 Today, U.S. Senator Tina Smith (D-MN) released the following statement after the Trump Administration announced it was cancelling energy infrastructure awards only in states that either did not support him in the presidential election or whose Senators are pushing to negotiate a bipartisan deal to re-open the federal government amidst the current shutdown, including Minnesota.\n\n\u201cThis is beyond stupid. At a time when most Minnesotans are just trying to scrape together enough money to pay their bills and live their lives, these politically motivated attacks on our state are just going to make it that much harder for Minnesotans to pay their utility bills every month,\u201d said Senator Smith. \u201cIt\u2019s not a coincidence he only canceled grants in states that didn\u2019t support his Presidential election bid, even though this is going to hurt every single Minnesotan whether they\u2019re a Republican, a Democrat or an Independent. It\u2019s not even thought out well, because a lot of this infrastructure is shared with states that did vote for him like South Dakota, North Dakota, Iowa and Nebraska, so they\u2019re going to feel the brunt of this too. He thinks using Minnesotans as political pawns will somehow bully me into abandoning my work trying to get a bipartisan deal to get out of this government shutdown. That\u2019s not happening, and we\u2019ll see if these cuts survive legal scrutiny.\n\nSome of the Minnesota projects cancelled include:", 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.smith.senate.gov/u-s-senator-tina-smiths-statement-on-president-trumps-political-attack-on-minnesotas-energy-infrastructure/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.460538012906909, "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"}