Sen. Cory Booker gives marathon speech on Senate floor to protest Trump administration's actions
Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) on Monday evening took to the Senate floor to speak as long as he is "physically able" in protest of actions taken by President Trump's administration.
"I’ve taken the Senate floor and will speak for as long as I’m physically able to lift the voices of Americans who are being harmed and not being heard in this moment of crisis," Booker said on X, which included a link to watch his speech live.
Booker began speaking at 7 p.m.
"Tonight, I rise with the intention of getting in some good trouble," Booker said in his opening remarks. "I rise tonight because I believe sincerely that our country is in crisis, and I believe not in a partisan sense, because so many of the people who have been reaching out to my office in pain, in fear, having their lives upended, so many of them identify themselves as Republicans."
Booker added that both Democrats and Republicans have told him as he's traveled across the country that "bedrock commitments are being broken."
"Unnecessary hardships are being born by Americans of all backgrounds, and insitutions which are special in America, which are precious, which are unique in our country, are being recklessly, and I would say even unconstitutionally affected, attacked, even shattered," he added.
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