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Cory Booker: And, again, you and I and the Presiding Officer, there are a lot of people here I know that operate from just a place of…

On the recordMarch 31, 2025
And, again, you and I and the Presiding Officer, there are a lot of people here I know that operate from just a place of just like decency. There are problems with government. We need to fix them. We need to make government more efficient. We need to deal with the national debt. There are so many things that people on the right and the left don't agree on. You and I can agree that, God bless America, the government could be a lot more efficient. But the question is, They are not playing on the level. There are lies about USAID like, I don't know, 5 million condoms going to Gaza or something outrageous and easily proven false, time and time again. The President of the United States, again, this doesn't shock people anymore, he is a President, more than any other modern President, by independent fact-checkers, has been proven to lie over and over again. But as I sat there listening to his speech, and he just goes on and on about transgender mice when that was proven to be utterly a lie or else somebody just misreading the kind of mice that are used in medical experiments which have a similar word. So are they lying in order to attack these programs? DOGE is insidious in the fact that they keep posting things and then having to pull them down because, just, independent folks.…
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Cory Booker
Democratic · New Jersey
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Mar 31, 2025

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