{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.thune.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-releases?ID=4EA93C0A-1B3F-4F4F-BCF5-ECD97C5F2AAD", "Thune Joins Squawk Box on CNBC", "2025-10-30", "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.\n\nWASHINGTON \u2014 U.S. Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) today joined Becky Quick and Andrew Ross Sorkin on CNBC\u2019s Squawk Box.\n\nOn Congress\u2019 responsibility to fund the government:\n\n\u201cI\u2019ve lived through several government shutdowns in my time here. Nobody wins. And if there\u2019s anything about it, it\u2019s just the stupidity of it. This is something we ought to be able to work out. It\u2019s simply funding the government so that we can fund the rest of the government through the normal appropriations process.\u201d\n\nOn Democrats prioritizing their far-left base:\n\n\u201cI think [Democrat] leadership is in a box. You\u2019ve got the New York mayoral election coming up, you\u2019ve got all these left-wing groups that are \u2026 clamoring for attention and to fight with Trump \u2026 I just think the Democrat leaders are scared and threatened by all this outside noise and afraid to open up the government.\n\n\u201cSo if this happens, I think it happens through the rank-and-file Democrats who come to the conclusion that this isn\u2019t anybody\u2019s best interest, and I think that\u2019s going to happen, Becky \u2026 I\u2019ve been through a few of these, and there isn\u2019t anything instructive about it. Nobody wins \u2026 It needs to end, and the sooner, the better.\u201d\n\nOn Democrats\u2019 shutdown hypocrisy:\n\n\u201cIf you take away a little bit of the \u2026 pain here, and a little bit of the pain here, but still, you\u2019ve got \u2026 millions of federal employees who aren\u2019t being paid, and many of whom are furloughed, but you have people who are working \u2026 I just think that you need to open it up. And the simplest way to do that is just to fund the entire government, not pick \u2026 winners and losers, or do these sort of one-off bills \u2026\n\n\u201cThis government needs to be open on behalf of the American people \u2026 [I]t\u2019s costing the economy \u2026 This is not a good thing for our country, and the longer it continues, the worse it\u2019s going to get.\u201d\n\nOn President Trump\u2019s trade agenda:\n\n\u201cI\u2019m obviously concerned about [China\u2019s] role in the world and the things that they\u2019re doing in other places, in Russia and Taiwan, etc. I do think, however, when it comes to the economy, that our economies are sort of inextricably linked together. We\u2019re the two largest economies in the world. There\u2019s a symbiotic relationship that exists there.\n\n\u201cThe good news \u2026 for a state like mine coming out of the announcement yesterday is that China is going to start buying soybeans again. [The] soybean market had been shut down. We had a big harvest this year. Nowhere to go with it. So \u2026 there\u2019s an economic relationship that I think we need to continue. Obviously there\u2019s going to be a give-and-take in relationships like this, but \u2026 I believe that the administration will do what\u2019s in the best interest, not only of America\u2019s economic security, but our national security as well.\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=4EA93C0A-1B3F-4F4F-BCF5-ECD97C5F2AAD"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.4245470520108938, "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"}