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Cory Booker: I want to answer this question so badly, but the crazy thing is that the person best to answer this question is the…

On the recordMarch 31, 2025
I want to answer this question so badly, but the crazy thing is that the person best to answer this question is the person who asked it. You have sat here and given this detailed analysis to show how this group of very wealthy billionaires in this country are so perverting our system by creating these front groups that then interfere in our democracy in the most disgusting ways. Even if you are like me and you can't stand the decision of Citizens United, even in Citizens United, the majority opinion really projected that we should do the DISCLOSE Act, which we have tried to bring to this floor and get passed, that says no more dark money. How do we have a political system that is so corrupted by billionaires who so, with all of their money, drown out the voices in politics of other Americans? (Mrs. BRITT assumed the Chair.) A great example of that is, they are getting so reckless that many billionaires aren't even hiding it anymore; i.e. Elon Musk. He is like saying, Hey, I am going to roll up into a Supreme Court case up in one of our best Great Lake States. I am just going to dump $100 million there and then give away, as if to insult our democracy, million-dollar checks as part of my effort to influence an election with my overwhelming flood-the-zone amount of billions of dollars. And by the way, hey, it is a pretty good investment, right? Donald Trump is his biggest campaign contributor.…
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Cory Booker
Democratic · New Jersey
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Mar 31, 2025

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