{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.thune.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-releases?ID=013C2630-E22D-4363-BE24-BAC888476339", "Thune: Schumer Shutdown Day Six", "2025-10-06", "2025", "2025-10", "Republican", "Senate", "SD", "John Thune", "T000250", "www.thune.senate.gov", "thune", "https://www.thune.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-releases", "scraper", "Clickhereto watch the video.\n\nWASHINGTON \u2014 U.S. Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) today delivered the following remarks on the Senate floor:\n\nThune\u2019s remarks below (as delivered):\n\n\u201cMr. President, we\u2019re now in day six of the Democrats\u2019 government shutdown.\n\n\u201cDay six.\n\n\u201cAnd I\u2019m wondering just what exactly Democrats think they\u2019re gaining from all of this.\n\n\u201cI guess they\u2019re getting points from the far-left interest groups they\u2019ve been coordinating their shutdown strategy with.\n\n\u201cBut I highly doubt that they\u2019re earning a lot of points with everyday, hardworking Americans.\n\n\u201cLike the voters that they lost in the last election.\n\n\u201cMr. President, a Reuters headline from Thursday noted, and I quote, \u2018US government shutdown threatens food-aid program for low-income Americans.\u2019\n\n\u201cLet me just read that again, Mr. President:\n\n\u201c\u2018US government shutdown threatens food-aid program for low-income Americans\u2019\n\n\u201cThe article noted that while the Trump Agriculture Department is doing its best to continue administering the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children \u2013 more commonly known as WIC \u2013 the program is \u2018critically low\u2019 on funds.\n\n\u201cAnd it won\u2019t get new funds until Democrats agree to reopen the government.\n\n\u201cMr. President, Democrats own this.\n\n\u201cThey own any lapse in funding for critical food aid programs, just as they own every other negative effect of this shutdown.\n\n\u201cBecause let\u2019s remember, Mr. President, the only reason the government is shut down is because Democrats refused to accept a clean, nonpartisan funding extension.\n\n\u201cA clean, nonpartisan funding extension.\n\n\u201cWe didn\u2019t ask Democrats to swallow any new Republican policies.\n\n\u201cWe didn\u2019t ask them to swallow any partisan riders.\n\n\u201cWe simply asked them to agree to a clean, nonpartisan bill.\n\n\u201cThe same kind of bill, Mr. President, I might add, that they voted for 13 times \u2013 13 times \u2013 during the Biden administration.\n\n\u201cBut Democrats said no.\n\n\u201cAnd I should note, Mr. President, that you don\u2019t have to take my word for it on the facts of the bill.\n\n\u201cRepublicans aren\u2019t the only ones pointing out that this is a clean CR.\n\n\u201cHere\u2019s what the president of the Teamsters union had to say the other day, and I quote:\n\n\u201c\u2018A shutdown will hurt working people. Period. \u2026 Senators should \u2026 pass the House-passed clean, short term funding bill.\u2019\n\n\u201c\u2018Senators should \u2026 pass the House-passed clean, short term funding bill.\u2019\n\n\u201cAgain, that from the president of the Teamsters union.\n\n\u201cOr, you know, you could take the word of a mainstream journalist, who recently noted, and I quote: \u2018In a vacuum, this CR would get almost every [Democratic] vote.\n\n\u201c\u2018It just would.\n\n\u201c\u2018This is a clean CR that has no partisan riders, extends a bunch of programs that are [Democratic] priorities.\n\n\u201c\u2018\u2026 it\u2019s clean.\u2019\n\n\u201c\u2018It\u2019s clean,\u2019 Mr. President.\n\n\u201cSo to summarize, Democrats have shut down the government because they refuse to accept a clean, nonpartisan bill.\n\n\u201cAnd why are they refusing to accept it?\n\n\u201cAfter all, as I mentioned, they supported similar bills 13 times during the Biden administration.\n\n\u201cThe reason that they refuse to accept it is that Democrats still cannot get over the fact that the American people elected President Trump.\n\n\u201cAnd when their far-left base demanded a showdown with the president, Democrats fell in line.\n\n\u201cAnd now it\u2019s the American people who are suffering the consequences.\n\n\u201cI quote again: \u2018US government shutdown threatens food-aid program for low-income Americans\u2019\n\n\u201c\u2018\u2026 threatens food-aid program for low-income Americans\u2019\n\n\u201cMr. President, three Democrats have rejected their party\u2019s shutdown politics and voted with Republicans to reopen the government.\n\n\u201cAll Democrats will get another chance to vote to reopen the government later today.\n\n\u201cAnd for the sake of the American people, I hope at least a few more Democrats will join us to pass this clean, nonpartisan CR and let the Senate get back to work.\u201d", 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.thune.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-releases?ID=013C2630-E22D-4363-BE24-BAC888476339"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.0506019461899996, "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"}