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Cory Booker: We have a President that is shredding the very Agencies that Americans who are struggling are relying on. Working people…

On the recordMarch 31, 2025
We have a President that is shredding the very Agencies that Americans who are struggling are relying on. Working people that, over the last 71 days, are finding higher prices, that are finding housing prices go up. Farmers in your State-- my State too; it is our fourth largest industry. I have had farmers come to me from as far away as Texas and tell me: They are clawing back these contracts that we have already relied on to buy things, and now you are putting me in a situation where I might lose my farm. You see veterans who come to our offices--I know they come to your office, Senator Klobuchar; you are a Senator from Minnesota, but you are a national figure, so I know they are coming to your office--and they are saying things to me like: I am a veteran. I could go do other jobs. I wanted to work on suicide prevention and mental health issues, and I am being fired? And you said it right. I have heard you say it in private. I have heard you say it in public. I know it irks you because you are one of those sort of balanced people. OK, we have a big deficit. That is a real problem. Maybe they are trying to lower the deficit, but they are not. That is the irony. They are not. They are about to explode trillions of dollars, most of which disproportionately goes to the wealthiest people, as you have been pointing out in our private phone calls over and over again, Senator Klobuchar. So your question to me is spot on. It is spot on.…
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Cory Booker
Democratic · New Jersey
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Mar 31, 2025

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