{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.thune.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-releases?ID=CF75528C-7927-430E-A34B-D0687F29E1E2", "Thune: Schumer Shutdown Day 10", "2025-10-10", "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 spoke at a press conference with Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-La.).\n\nThune\u2019s remarks below (as delivered):\n\n\u201cWell, good morning.\n\n\u201cLeader Chuck Schumer may think that every day that goes by, the shutdown gets better for the political prospects of the Democrats.\n\n\u201cBut every day that it goes by, it gets a lot worse for the American people.\n\n\u201cNow, Democrat senators might start to feel that a little bit personally when they try to fly out of airports, and you see some of the impacts that are already occurring with respect to TSA and air traffic control.\n\n\u201cAnd families around the country are already seeing the impacts, and it\u2019s about to get a whole lot worse.\n\n\u201cBecause we just needed five more votes \u2013 five more Democrat votes \u2013 that the Democrats wouldn\u2019t give us yesterday.\n\n\u201cThe American people are going to \u2026 feel a lot more pain and miss a lot more paychecks in the very near future.\n\n\u201cSo, shame on the Democrats.\n\n\u201cShame on the Democrats for doing this to the American people.\n\n\u201cI mean, look at that.\n\n\u201cReally?\n\n\u201c\u2018Every day gets better for us?\u2019\n\n\u201c\u2018Every day gets better for us.\u2019\n\n\u201cThat\u2019s their thought about what this shutdown means.\n\n\u201cSo, shame on the Democrats for what they\u2019re doing to the American people.\n\n\u201cRepublicans want our troops to get paid.\n\n\u201cWe want our air traffic controllers to get paid.\n\n\u201cWe want our TSA agents to get paid.\n\n\u201cWe want our Border [Patrol] agents to get paid.\n\n\u201cAnd we have voted that way now in the United States Senate seven times, to open up the government.\n\n\u201cDemocrats in the Senate are the last hurdle, the last hurdle to getting the government open again and the American people back to work.\n\n\u201cBut, what?\n\n\u201cInstead, they\u2019ve decided to pander to their far-left activist base, who are cheering \u2013 cheering \u2013 what\u2019s going on here.\n\n\u201cAnd the Democrats tend to be so afraid \u2013 I guess, is the only thing, or running scared from \u2013 that far-left activist base that they are willing to put that ahead of what\u2019s in the best interest of the American people.\n\n\u201cWell, it\u2019s time for them to get a backbone.\n\n\u201cIt\u2019s really time for the Senate Democrats to show a little courage and put the American people ahead of their far-left activist base.\n\n\u201cThey have a simple choice in front of them:\n\n\u201cOpen up the government.\n\n\u201cQuit playing politics.\n\n\u201cQuit talking about how \u2018it gets better for us, because we\u2019re looking at the polling and we think that we\u2019re winning.\u2019\n\n\u201cThis is all that\u2019s between this country and their government being open again.\n\n\u201cIt\u2019s this bill. You\u2019ve seen it before.\n\n\u201cIt\u2019s passed the House of Representatives.\n\n\u201cIt\u2019s sitting at the desk of the Senate.\n\n\u201cIt could be picked up and passed today, put on the president\u2019s desk, where he has said he will sign it into law.\n\n\u201cThe government opens back up, people get paid, troops get paid, air traffic controllers get paid, TSA agents get paid, Border Patrol agents get paid, and we get back to working on behalf of the American people.\n\n\u201cThat\u2019s what, that\u2019s really, this is it.\n\n\u201cThis is all that is between this country being back to work again, and it\u2019s five Democrats in the United States Senate.\n\n\u201cWe have a majority of United States senators \u2013 55 out of 100 senators \u2013 are voting to open up the government.\n\n\u201cWe need five bold, courageous Democrats with a backbone, who are willing to take on their far-left activist base.\n\n\u201cJoin us in passing this.\n\n\u201cCould do it anytime, anytime.\n\n\u201cSend it to the president, he\u2019ll sign it in law.\n\n\u201cIt\u2019s that simple.\n\n\u201cSomething they\u2019ve done 13 times when they had the majority here in the United States Senate and President Biden in the White House.\n\n\u201cThirteen different times.\n\n\u201cContinuing resolutions are a routine practice around here.\n\n\u201cThey don\u2019t get hijacked for extraneous policy riders, and we didn\u2019t do that.\n\n\u201cNo gimmicks, no policy riders, no partisan attachments to the bill that came over that the speaker and the House passed and sent to the Senate.\n\n\u201cIt\u2019s just a straight-up bill to keep our government open so we can continue the appropriations process and get back to work for the American people.\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=CF75528C-7927-430E-A34B-D0687F29E1E2"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.7320560291409492, "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"}