{"id":40749,"date":"2025-04-02T12:49:51","date_gmt":"2025-04-02T19:49:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=40749"},"modified":"2025-04-02T12:51:07","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T19:51:07","slug":"it-cant-be-business-as-usual-cory-booker-praised-for-historic-stand-against-trump-musk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2025\/04\/02\/it-cant-be-business-as-usual-cory-booker-praised-for-historic-stand-against-trump-musk\/","title":{"rendered":"‘It Can’t Be Business as Usual’: Cory Booker Praised for Historic Stand Against Trump-Musk"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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U.S. Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) held the Senate floor overnight, beginning at 7:00 pm Eastern Time on March 31, 2025, to protest the Trump administration’s attacks on the federal government. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Photo: Sen. Cory Booker\/YouTube\/screengrab)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“More of this energy from every Democrat please,” said one progressive commentator as the New Jersey lawmaker continued to hold the floor of the U.S. Senate with a record-breaking speech that lasted over 25 hours.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

JESSICA CORBETT<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apr 01, 2025 (CommonDreams.org)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Answering the voting public’s growing call<\/a> for the Democratic Party to actually stand up to Republicans’ sweeping assault<\/a> on the federal government, led by U.S. President Donald Trump<\/a> and his billionaire adviser Elon Musk<\/a>, Sen. Cory Booker took to the Senate floor at 7:00 pm Eastern Time on Monday and spoke for<\/a> 25 hours and 5 minutes, shattering a record for the chamber’s longest speech.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Early in his remarks, Booker (D-N.J.) cited the example of late<\/a> Congressman John Lewis (D-Ga.), a civil rights icon who famously declared<\/a> in 2020, “Get in good trouble, necessary trouble, and help redeem the soul of America.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Booker, who ran<\/a> for president in 2020, explained Monday that he asked himself, “If he’s my hero, how am I living up to his words?”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“What’s happened in the past 71 days in a patent demonstration of a time where John Lewis’ call to everyone has, I think, become more urgent and more pressing,” Booker said. “So, tonight, I rise tonight with the intention of getting in some good trouble. I rise with the intention of disrupting the normal business of the United States Senate for as long as I am physically able.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“I rise tonight because I believe sincerely that our country is in crisis\u2014and I believe that not in a partisan sense, because so many of the people that have been reaching out to my office in pain, in fear, having their lives upended, so many of them identify themselves as Republicans,” the senator continued.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Booker stressed that “bedrock commitments are being broken, unnecessary hardships are being borne by Americans of all backgrounds, and institutions 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, and even shattered.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“In just 71 days, the president of the United States has inflicted so much harm on Americans’ safety, financial stability, the core foundations of our democracy, and even our aspirations as a people for, from our highest offices, a sense of common decency. These are not normal times in America, and they should not be treated as such,” he argued. “I can’t allow this body to continue without doing something different, speaking out. The threats to American people and American democracy are grave and urgent, and we all must do more\u2014we all must do more against them.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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