‘F*cking Fight’: Dems Face Off In Epic Verbal Spat On Senate Floor
Senate Democrats engaged in a fierce shouting match on the Senate floor Tuesday afternoon with Democratic New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker accusing his fellow party members of betraying their party and condoning…
Senate Democrats engaged in a fierce shouting match on the Senate floor Tuesday afternoon with Democratic New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker accusing his fellow party members of betraying their party and condoning authoritarianism.
The New Jersey Democrat delivered a blistering speech after heading to the Senate floor to object to a slate of bipartisan police funding bills offered by Democratic Sens. Amy Klobuchar and Catherine Cortez-Masto and Republican Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley, which passed out of the Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously. Booker excoriated his Democratic colleagues for not doing enough to fight President Donald Trump and said their bipartisan legislation was tantamount to complicity with the administration’s policy agenda.
“What I am tired of is when the President of the United States of America violates the Constitution, crashes our normsand traditions, and what does the Democratic Party do?” Booker said on the Senate floor. “Comply? Allow him? Beg for justice?”
“No, I demand justice,” Booker continued. “The Democratic Party needs to wake up.”
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Booker said he wanted to offer an amendment to the package that would seek to counter the president’s ability to rescind grant funding to certain state and local jurisdictions. Klobuchar and Cortez-Masto criticized Booker for failing to offer the measure during the markup and suggested he missed his chance to add it to their bloc of bills.
The bitter spat comes as the Democratic Party is engulfed in questions over how much the party should be pushing back against the president. Booker, who is rumored to have 2028 presidential ambitions, torched his Democratic colleagues for not endorsing his “fight” mentality.