{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.thune.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-releases?ID=A1962566-74FC-4D62-99B9-DB289079A162", "Thune to Neil Cavuto: Democrats Aren\u2019t Going to get Bipartisan Help to Enable Partisan Spending", "2021-09-21", "2021", "2021-09", "Republican", "Senate", "SD", "John Thune", "T000250", "www.thune.senate.gov", "thune", "https://www.thune.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-releases", "scraper", "U.S. Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.) today joined \u201cYour World With Neil Cavuto\u201d to discuss Democrats\u2019 reckless tax-and-spending spree and the need for them to increase the debt limit on their own.\n\nOn Democrats\u2019 push for massive government expansion and tax hikes:\n\n\u201c[Democrats] run the whole government. They\u2019ve got the House. They\u2019ve got the Senate. They\u2019ve got the White House.\n\nThey can pass an increase in the debt limit to accommodate this massive run-up in spending that they want to do and do it with Democrat votes. Republicans are not going to be complicit in or enable one of the biggest expansions of government and biggest tax increases that we have ever seen in history.\u201d\n\n\u2026\n\n\u201cThe debt limit needs to be increased. It\u2019s just a question of who provides the votes to do it. And, as you point out, in the past, there have been times where there\u2019s been a bipartisan negotiation that put caps on spending, and included a debt limit increase. Typically, that\u2019s done in a time of divided government.\n\n\u201cAnd when we have been in charge of the government, we have been responsible for trying to make a deal to get the votes. What we\u2019re saying here is, they run the House, the Senate, and the White House. They run all of government, and they are trying to pass with 51 votes the largest expansion of government \u2013 one of the largest expansions of government in history, and one of the largest tax increases in history.\n\n\u201cWhy should Republicans be expected to deliver votes to increase the debt limit to accommodate all that new spending? They can do it at 51. They should do it at 51. And our members are going to insist that they do.\u201d\n\n\u2026", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T20:17:01Z"]], "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=A1962566-74FC-4D62-99B9-DB289079A162"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.8831999730318785, "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"}