{"id":11807,"date":"2025-07-29T22:16:42","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T22:16:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/booker-confronts-fellow-democrats-over-bipartisan-police-bills\/"},"modified":"2025-07-29T22:16:42","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T22:16:42","slug":"booker-confronts-fellow-democrats-over-bipartisan-police-bills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/booker-confronts-fellow-democrats-over-bipartisan-police-bills\/","title":{"rendered":"Booker confronts fellow Democrats over bipartisan police bills"},"content":{"rendered":"
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New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker scolded fellow Democrats Tuesday for not having enough \u201cbackbone\u201d to resist President Donald Trump in a fiery floor exchange that took place as colleagues sought to pass bipartisan police-related bills.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat I am tired of is when the president of the United States violates the Constitution \u2026 and what does the Democratic Party do? Comply? Allow him? Beg for scraps?\u201d Booker said. \u201cNo, I demand justice.\u201d<\/p>\n

The bills in question are aimed at equipping police with trauma kits<\/a> and protecting certain family death benefits<\/a>, and Democratic Sens. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota and Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada sought to pass them by unanimous consent.<\/p>\n

But Booker sought to offer an amendment requiring the Trump administration to distribute public safety resources among red and blue states without political bias \u2014 a request that threatened to upend the bill\u2019s quick passage.<\/p>\n

Klobuchar and Masto both criticized Booker for bringing up his concerns on the floor instead of raising them earlier in the Judiciary Committee, which approved the bills unanimously.<\/p>\n

Amid the unusual intraparty sparring, Booker warned his colleagues not to question his \u201cintegrity.\u201d He later told reporters he didn\u2019t raise concerns in committee because Trump\u2019s threats to withhold federal funding from states that don\u2019t comply with the administration’s immigration agenda came only after the bills advanced out of the panel in April.<\/p>\n

Booker, who delivered a record-breaking 25-hour floor speech<\/a> earlier this year, went on to criticize his party in general for not opposing Trump and the GOP more fiercely. Tuesday\u2019s floor confrontation came as Republicans are pressuring Senate Democrats to consent<\/a> to the quick approval of dozens of Trump nominees.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere’s a lot of us in this caucus that want to fucking fight,\u201d Booker told reporters. \u201cAnd what’s bothering me right now is we don’t see enough fight in this caucus.\u201d<\/p>\n

On the floor, he did not ultimately object, and the bills passed by unanimous consent.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker scolded fellow Democrats Tuesday for not having enough \u201cbackbone\u201d to resist President Donald Trump in a fiery floor exchange that took place as colleagues sought to pass bipartisan police-related bills. \u201cWhat I am tired of is when the president of the United States violates the Constitution \u2026 and what does […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11807\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}