{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.thune.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-releases?ID=215C98B2-D5E7-4AA7-B8E0-FECDA6A7D58A", "Thune Joins America\u2019s Newsroom on Fox News", "2025-11-07", "2025", "2025-11", "Republican", "Senate", "SD", "John Thune", "T000250", "www.thune.senate.gov", "thune", "https://www.thune.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-releases", "scraper", "Clickhere to watch the video.\n\nWASHINGTON \u2014 U.S. Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) today joined America\u2019s Newsroom on Fox News.\n\nOn Democrats prioritizing their far-left base:\n\n\u201cThe Democrats just have to take yes for an answer. We\u2019ve given them everything, essentially, that they were asking for \u2026 Yesterday, at their Democratic caucus meeting in the Senate, [they] had a pep rally \u2026 they are celebrating this. It\u2019s insane.\n\n\u201cAnd what\u2019s happening is the far left, which is the tail wagging the dog, is bullying the reasonable Democrats out of coming to the table. We have a proposal that they have been reviewing and looking at now for several days, mostly with things that they asked for, including a normal appropriations process: We open up the government, they get a vote on their Obamacare fix.\n\n\u201cThey want to sit down, meet with the president on a path forward, [and] he\u2019s more than willing to do that. All those things are in play, but they can\u2019t take yes for an answer, for fear. I mean, these people are scared spitless of their base, and that\u2019s what\u2019s happening. Yesterday was a bullying session. The far left in the Democrat caucus bullied the reasonable ones out of coming to the table and settling this. I\u2019m still hoping that these people are going to come to the table, and we\u2019ll find out soon enough.\u201d\n\nOn Democrats\u2019 shutdown hypocrisy:\n\n\u201cAll [Democrats] have to do is take yes for an answer. We\u2019ve offered them a solution. The president\u2019s willing to meet with them. I\u2019m willing to give them the vote. All the things that they said they wanted. \u2026 This is Trump Derangement Syndrome \u2013 nothing more, nothing less, nothing else. And these folks in their caucus right now, they don\u2019t care what the issue is, if President Trump is involved with it, they just want to fight.\u201d\n\n[\u2026]\n\n\u201cPresident Trump is more than willing to weigh in and to talk to the Democrats about [the] path forward on how to fix the unaffordability and unsustainability problems of Obamacare, a problem the Democrats created. The president\u2019s more than willing to help them fix that, but not while the government is being held hostage.\u201d\n\nOn the consequences of Democrats\u2019 government shutdown:\n\n\u201cAll the president\u2019s saying is \u2026 open up the government, then let\u2019s sit down and talk on a path forward. That\u2019s been offered up \u2026 I don\u2019t know how you can be more reasonable \u2026 [Democrats] are being bullied by their leadership, by the far left in this country \u2013 and as a consequence of that, you\u2019ve got troops, men and women in uniform are going without pay. You\u2019ve got women and children who are going to be going without WIC and food stamps. You\u2019ve got people who are working in airlines and airports, as you heard Secretary Duffy say earlier, and flight delays and everything that goes with that.\n\n\u201cThe pain is multiplying for the American people, and the Democrats yesterday at their caucus meeting \u2026 were celebrating it. It was a big pep rally, and I just don\u2019t know how you defend that to the American people, who are the ones that are suffering.\u201d", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T19:52:45Z"]], "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=215C98B2-D5E7-4AA7-B8E0-FECDA6A7D58A"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.9652790613472462, "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"}