Sen. Cory Booker launched into a blistering all-night speech late Monday, taking aim at President Donald Trump and Elon Musk.
Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) spoke out against President Donald Trump and Elon Musk on the Senate floor throughout the night after beginning his marathon speech at 7 p.m. Monday.
The senator was still speaking on the floor after 8 a.m. Tuesday, more than 13 hours after he had begun.
Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) who said he planned to join Booker “for the entirety of his speech,” noted that he was “returning the favor” as Booker joined him when he “launched a filibuster to demand action on gun violence nine years ago.”
Murphy was among the Democrats who provided Booker with some relief by speaking at times to punctuate the marathon session.
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At around midnight, Booker said he would continue to speak “as long as [he is] physically able” using the chamber’s open floor time to command attention and spotlight Democratic concerns about the direction of the country.
“In just 71 days, the president of the United States has inflicted so much harm on Americans’ safety, financial stability, the core foundations of our democracy and even our aspirations as a people for — from our highest offices — a sense of common decency,” Booker said. “These are not normal times in America. And they should not be treated as such in the United States Senate.”
He continued to blast Trump and Musk for “complete disregard for the rule of law, the Constitution and the needs of the American people.”
Among the key issues Booker hammered: proposed GOP cuts to Medicaid.
“It is maddening… to create greater and greater health care crisis,” he said, accusing Republicans of tearing down systems “with no plan to make it better.”
Trump has previously indicated that he will not “touch” Americans’ Social Security, Medicare, or Medicaid benefits, but wants to weed out fraud.
While technically not a filibuster — since it hasn’t been tied to any active legislation — Booker’s speech threatens to delay Senate business, which is set to begin at noon.
Surely the honorable senator had something positive to speak about but the again this is a dumb democrat looking out just for themselves and not representing the people.
That view is pure projection at its most flagrant.
He definitely isn’t a top person. This Democrat Booker is at the bottom of the pit. Let’s just tell all of the evil Democrats to shut up and go home.
I think not They are obviously the only ones serious about preserving this great representative democracy that we all have been blessed to have inherited.
Just goes to prove Sen. Cory Booker really is full of hot air!! The Democrats have been inflicting so much harm on Americans’ safety, financial stability, the core foundations of our democracy and even our aspirations as a people for a sense of common decency every chance they get.