{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/icymi-tuberville-joins-the-big-money-show-on-fox-business/", "ICYMI: Tuberville Joins \u201cThe Big Money Show\u201d\u00a0on Fox Business", "2024-12-20", "2024", "2024-12", "Republican", "Senate", "AL", "Tommy Tuberville", "T000278", "www.tuberville.senate.gov", "tuberville", "https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/press-releases/", "scraper", "WASHINGTON \u2013 Yesterday, U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) joined the \u201cBig Money Show\u201d to discuss government funding negotiations and President Trump\u2019s demand for an increase in the debt ceiling.\n\nExcerpts from Senator Tuberville\u2019s interview can be found below and his full interview can be watched on YouTube or Rumble.\n\nRIGGS: \u201cRepublican Senator, Tommy Tuberville. Senator, it\u2019s great to have you on the program today, and I want to get your reaction\u2014I know what\u2019s being considered right now. It might have some of those really wasteful items taken out because you\u2019ve got a proposition of scaling that down, keeping the government running, and even raising the debt ceiling to keep things running smoothly, but what are the chances that all of this will be approved by both sides?\u201d\n\nTUBERVILLE: \u201cYeah. Well, number one, how does this happen? It\u2019s failure to communicate. There was no communication, obviously, with people putting this together, especially all the people in the house. We didn\u2019t see it until late. 1,500 pages, it should have been about 30, but we got way out of control. And I think Mike Johnson was trying to do the best he could, but he got way over his skis. He got way too much in there and basically, it\u2019s out of control. But this is Washington D.C. at its best, just spend money at the end of the year. Everybody wants to go home, but now it\u2019s time to put this thing together. You know, I\u2019ve been up here four years, and we hadn\u2019t done a budget yet. All we do is just keep kicking the can down the road and spending money like we\u2019ve got it, and we don\u2019t have anywhere broke.\u201d\n\nDeANGELIS: \u201cWell Senator, we understand that House Republicans are meeting this afternoon. They\u2019re working on another version of this continuing resolution. And there are reports that it includes what President-elect Trump wants to see happen, which is raising the debt ceiling. Senator, I understand in the past you\u2019ve been staunchly against raising the debt ceiling. You voted against it. So, if this reaches you for a vote with the raise of the debt ceiling, how would you vote this time?\u201d\n\nTUBERVILLE: \u201cWell, I\u2019d vote for it this time because we\u2019re at the end of it. And President Trump is coming in, and in spring, you\u2019re gonna have to raise it anyway. So, let\u2019s get it out of the way. Let\u2019s do a clean CR. Let\u2019s put the debt ceiling in there, get it out of the way, so they don\u2019t have to worry about it once they get here. You know, the debt ceiling\u2019s been busted seventy times in the last, what, thirty, forty years. It\u2019s just a barometer of what you look at, of where you\u2019re at, and gives the minority, actually, a little power to look at and say, \u2018Hey, you know, if we\u2019re gonna go in, go over this debt ceiling, you\u2019re gonna have to give us something for that.\u2019 But at the end of the day, yeah, we\u2019re gonna we need to raise it for President Trump. Give his team of Scott Bessent and Kevin Hassett, the Secretary of Treasury group, a chance to drop our taxes because it\u2019s very expensive now when you drop taxes in the short term. But that\u2019s what we\u2019re gonna have to do, and we\u2019re gonna have to deregulate, we have to grow this country, and we gotta get it to an average of three percent growth a year. President Trump did that until COVID. President Biden hit it one time, but really had no chance on any of the other ones. We have gotta get some consistency here, but it starts with cutting money with the DOGE brothers.\u201d\n\nBRENBERG: \u201cYour colleague, Senator Kennedy, has said, \u2018Look, President-elect Trump should come to Washington. He should sit down with Speaker Johnson, sit down with John Thune, JD Vance, and hash this thing out.\u2019 What\u2019s interesting to me is President-elect Trump\u2019s not gonna sign this bill. It\u2019s President Biden who has to sign it, and he\u2019s been completely cut out of everything. At this point, it\u2019s like the President-elect is basically the President, Sir, is it not?\u201d\n\nTUBERVILLE: \u201cOh, definitely. President Biden\u2019s been able\u2014he\u2019s been on vacation for a couple of months looking for the spotted owl down in the Amazon or something. But it\u2019s just absolutely amazing to me that we\u2019re trying to all do this, but the democrats are gonna fight back on every turn. They want everything they can possibly get in this CR. But, again, we need a clean CR.\n\nWe need to kick this thing down the road, or we need to just shut the government down and come back first week in January because nobody\u2019s gonna miss a paycheck. Shut it down, let everybody get a calm, cool head, let President Trump and his team along with, as you said, the big four get together, work at it, get things done the right way. And let\u2019s do what\u2019s best for the American people. Right now, everybody\u2019s in a in a tither trying to point fingers at each other. Let\u2019s just get it done right for the American people and get going, get President Trump off in the right way in January the 20th.\u201d\n\nSenator Tommy Tuberville represents Alabama in the United States Senate and is a member of the Senate Armed Services, Agriculture, Veterans\u2019 Affairs, and HELP Committees.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T19:07:19Z"]], "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.tuberville.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/icymi-tuberville-joins-the-big-money-show-on-fox-business/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 3.1516922172158957, "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"}