{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.thune.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-releases?ID=FE579045-846C-4D3D-93A4-55CF2FDB5CF4", "Thune Joins Sean Hannity on Fox News", "2025-10-28", "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.) joined Sean Hannity on Fox News.\n\nOn Democrats prioritizing their far-left base:\n\n\u201cThis is a big political game [to the Democrats]. This is to make a bunch of people on their far left \u2013 the people who were probably at the rally last weekend for Mamdani in New York \u2013 that\u2019s the kind of constituency that the Democrats are appealing to right now.\u201d\n\n[\u2026]\n\n\u201cAt some point, Schumer is probably going to have to do what Jeffries did over the weekend, and that is endorse Mamdani \u2026 [The far-left base is] now defining what the Democrat Party is about. This is a party without an identity \u2026 they\u2019re floundering around, flailing around, keeping the government shut down so they can demand all these extraneous policies \u2026\n\n\u201cI think New York is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to where the Democrats are headed. And that\u2019s the reason I think most Americans are going to say: enough of that; I don\u2019t need that; I don\u2019t need a socialist, left-wing ideology \u2026 running \u2026 New York, but also infecting \u2026 the Democrat Party all across the country.\u201d\n\nOn the consequences of Democrats\u2019 government shutdown:\n\n\u201cUnfortunately \u2026 millions of Americans are going to get impacted by [the government shutdown] \u2026 millions of Americans who aren\u2019t getting paychecks, who work for the federal government \u2026\n\n\u201c[Forty]-some million people \u2026 depend upon food assistance [and] that runs out at the end of the week \u2026 These consequences are becoming real. Flight delays, ATC problems, air traffic controllers, in addition to TSA, Border Patrol, [and] Capitol Police [aren\u2019t] getting paid. The troops aren\u2019t going to be getting paid \u2026\n\n\u201cThis is a real crisis for a lot of American families and the Democrats, as [House Democrat Whip Katherine Clark said], \u2018this is [Democrats\u2019] leverage,\u2019 and they view it as a big political game.\u201d\n\nOn Democrats\u2019 shutdown hypocrisy:\n\n\u201cThe Federal Employees Union \u2026 has come out in support of the clean continuing resolution sent over here to the Senate by the House, which is awaiting action \u2026 All we have to do is pick it up, [get] \u2026 five more Democrats [to] vote for it. We pass it. Send it to the White House. President signs it into law. Government reopens. All these questions go away.\u201d\n\n[\u2026]\n\n\u201cLast week, we had a vote on a Ron Johnson bill on the floor of the Senate that simply would have paid \u2026 all federal employees who are currently working \u2026 So think military and Capitol Police and \u2026 Border Patrol, all these different folks who are actually doing the job right now, not getting paid. Democrats blocked it.\n\n\u201cI\u2019m hoping enough [Democrats] come to their senses to give us the five votes that we need to actually get the government reopened again. But they are playing a game, and these demands that they have \u2026 [are] not serious. It\u2019s not realistic, and they know it. And all we\u2019re simply trying to do is fund the government at last year\u2019s levels and keep it open until we can get the appropriations process going.\n\n\u201cIt\u2019s a \u2026 very straightforward \u2026 uncomplicated position that we put out there. I think the American people are starting to get it, and I think the employers, the Government Employees Union, is \u2026 a big indication of that.\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=FE579045-846C-4D3D-93A4-55CF2FDB5CF4"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.7884199731051922, "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"}