Cory Booker: “Sir, my friend, I don't understand how a nation could allow a President to be so cruel that he would take away…”

“Sir, my friend, I don't understand how a nation could allow a President to be so cruel that he would take away healthcare from people struggling with children that are facing the worst of health challenges, people who have a spouse like the person who wrote to me--no, it wasn't a spouse. She wrote me herself. She had Parkinson's. I got upset because that is how my father died. I watched, year after year after year, how it affected my family, how it demanded from my mother, how it cost thousands of dollars for his care. And thank God we have the privilege. But this person was writing because they were afraid, and they didn't know what the costs would be. How can our country say that kind of cruelty--how could a nation where the majority of its people are people of faith, be they Muslim or Jain or Baha'i or Hindu or Jewish--how can the central precept of our country, founded on principles that are reflected in the Good Book--how could we say that we should cut healthcare from the sick and the needy to give bigger tax cuts to Elon Musk?”