{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.thune.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-releases?ID=E83B1247-703B-4B67-A189-9842A863B847", "Thune on America\u2019s Newsroom: Voters Reject Democrats\u2019 Big Government Policies", "2021-11-04", "2021", "2021-11", "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 \u201cAmerica\u2019s Newsroom\u201d to discuss the Democrats\u2019 reckless tax-and-spending spree and the Biden administration\u2019s reported plan to give illegal immigrants $450,000 taxpayer-funded settlements.\n\nOn Democrats ignoring voters who reject their radical policies:\n\n\u201cI think they're in a bubble right now. They\u2019re obviously not looking at, you know, what\u2019s happening around the country and listening to the voices of the people out there. The clear message coming out of the elections on Tuesday night was that there was a rejection, a repudiation of this nanny state, big government approach the Democrats here in Washington are taking. And I don\u2019t know how you can conclude any other way.\n\n\u201cI mean, obviously, in Virginia we saw a historic victory, and in New Jersey, a very close race. But in both cases, I think it was a response to the Biden agenda and the American people saying, \u2018I don't want this, this isn't what I voted for.\u2019 And so I think they're completely misinterpreting that message.\u201d\n\nOn the Democrats\u2019 reckless tax-and-spending spree:\n\n\u201cBut in the end, this bill is gonna be written by Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema in the Senate. And we\u2019re hoping that we can do everything to try and restrain the amount of reckless spending and reckless taxing and reckless amount of debt that is going to come with this if something eventually passes.\u201d\n\n...\n\n\u201cIf you look at what they\u2019re contemplating doing here, there's gonna be a lot of duplication, a lot of overlap, a lot of spending that\u2019s totally unnecessary. And you look at the things that are funded in here, and you know, their argument is the reason people voted the way they did on Tuesday night is because they don't know what's in this bill, they don't know how good it is for them. I would argue they do know what's in it.\n\n\u201cYou know, funding hundreds of millions of dollars for urban agriculture, tree equity, you know, tax credits for universities and colleges that offer courses in environmental justice. This stuff is just, it's crazy left. And the country understands that, and that's why they're responding the way that they are.\"\n\nOn the Biden administration\u2019s reported plan to give illegal immigrants $450,000 taxpayer-funded cash settlements:", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T20:30:49Z"]], "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=E83B1247-703B-4B67-A189-9842A863B847"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.8234072010964155, "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"}