Cory Booker BRAWLS With Democratic Colleagues in Wild Senate Floor Showdown: 'Complicit to Donald Trump!' [View all]

Source: Mediaite

Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) openly brawled with Senators Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV) and Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) over law enforcement bills favored by the latter two on the Senate floor Tuesday afternoon.

“Sadly, this is not what the Justice Department is doing,” argued Booker. “Rather than supporting law enforcement agencies and officers equally across the nation, they are weaponizing public safety grants to punish state and local jurisdictions that resist the Trump policy agenda, including my home state of New Jersey.”

“It is disgraceful. It is unfair. It is unjust. And it is dangerously reckless towards the officers whose wellbeing they are jeopardizing,” continued the senior senator from New Jersey before calling it “outrageous.”

Cortez Masto then objected to Booker’s call for amendments to be added to the bills to prevent the Trump administration from taking the action he described.

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