New Jersey Senator Corey Booker unleashed on his Democrat colleagues Tuesday evening, accusing them of being ‘willing to be complicit’ in President Donald Trump’s governance.
‘It’s time for Democrats to have a backbone. It’s time for us to fight. It’s time for us to draw lines, the New Jersey Senator said, during his latest rant.
‘Don’t be complicit to the president of the United States,’ Booker stated. ‘We are standing at a moment where our president is eviscerating the Constitution of the United States of America, and we’re willing to go along with that today.’
‘No, not on my watch. I have to stand against this. It is a violation of our Constitution for the president of the United States to ignore the will of Congress and decide which states are eligible for grants and which are not,’ he added.
Booker’s tough words were directed at a pair of his Democrat colleagues, Senators Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota and Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada.
‘I will note that Sen. Booker objected to my police reauthorization bill, the COPS funding, the Clinton COPS funding, long before Donald Trump came into office. So this is not just about this. This is a long dispute over this type of funding,’ Klobuchar said, biting back at her colleague.
Klobuchar then added another jab at Booker, noting that he didn’t think it was worth his time to show up to debate the merits of her proposal in a prior committee meeting.
‘I can’t help it if someone couldn’t change their schedule to be there,’ Klobuchar fired back.
All of that fiery rhetoric seemed to have been for nothing in the end, as Booker did not oppose the two police bills, which were passed by unanimous consent.
Booker has made a name for himself with his long-winded speeches in the chamber, recently setting a record for the longest ever solo address on the Senate Floor.
The 25-hour marathon started on March 31st and ran over a day into the evening of April 1st.
Booker is considered to be a potential hopeful for the 2028 Democratic presidential nomination, and his attacks on his colleagues come as the Democrats are searching for both an identity in the Trump era, as well as a new leader for their political party.