Cory Booker

Booker argues Democrats need five big ideas delivered within the first three months of power so voters feel immediate change.

“Five big ideas. that we in the first three months do and everybody feels a real change in their lives”

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Booker rejects the anti-tax label, saying he is instead opposed to working-class people being financially squeezed.

“I am not anti-tax. I am pro-working people keeping more of their money”

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Booker says the plan costs nothing because it is funded by eliminating corporate tax avoidance schemes.

“it doesn't cost anything if you are taking away all of these uh tax avoidance schemes of the largest corporations and you use it to fund this, then it costs nothing”

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Booker says his plan would cut child poverty in half and give a single mother earning $60,000 nearly $6,000 more.

“So this cuts child poverty in half. This cuts the overall poverty rate, and I've seen different estimates by people who've run the numbers from 10% to greater”

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Booker says he would view a war supplemental as retroactive reward for an unconstitutional unilateral war and does not expect the conflict to end in two or three weeks.

“I do not see it ending in two or three weeks, but maybe they, uh, end combat operations there. It doesn't mean that the fallout of that is going to be, uh, is going to end”

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Booker says enablers in Congress and the Justice Department offend him more than Trump himself.

“all the people who are enabling this man to do what he is doing and the harms he's doing offend me worse than even Donald Trump does”

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Booker criticizes Trump for spending tens of billions on the war while saying the country cannot afford Medicaid and child care.

“he has the flagrant, morally bankrupt statement of saying, oh, we can't afford Medicare and Medicaid. This is his speech last night, that I'm spending tens of billions of dollars, but we can't afford affordable childcare in America”

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Booker says Trump unilaterally declared war and broke the Pottery Barn rule, causing the worst global oil shock.

“He's broken what Colin Powell would say, the pottery barn rule. If you break it, you buy it or you fix it”

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Booker says classified briefings show adversaries running large operations to inflame American social media divisions, including within the Democratic Party.

“I see our adversaries who have warehouses full of people who just go on to our social media and try to whip up the conflicts that we have between us”

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Booker calls Netanyahu a horrible person who enabled October 7 and says he hopes Israelis vote him out and jail him.

“Benjamin Netanyahu is a horrible person who enabled October 7th and has failed to take accountability”

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Booker argues Palestinian justice and Israeli security are mutually dependent and must be pursued together.

“we will never be able to achieve justice and independence for Palestinians without Israeli security. And there'll never be Israeli security until there's justice and independence for Palestinians”

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Booker proposes banning PACs, overturning Citizens United, and barring presidential crypto coins and senator stock trading as part of a first-100-days agenda.

“We kill Citizens United and that's the worst decision. Maybe that's another one of our bold ideas. We make everybody from a president won't be able to have crypto coins, a senator won't be able to trade stocks”

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Booker recounts a crypto industry representative calling to apologize for a large PAC during his negotiations on market structure legislation.

“somebody from that industry tried to apologize. What was the exact words? Yeah, we don't want you to think this is a threat”

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Booker says he has stopped taking corporate PAC money and, as of the end of last year, issue-area PAC money as well.

“I was one of the first people in Congress to say no corporate PAC money. At the end of last year, I said, enough”

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Booker says the United States is no longer the best country in which to be born poor, citing England's greater mobility out of the bottom quintile.

“We're no longer the best country to be born poor. Classist England, it's better to be born there if your sole goal is to make it into out of the bottom quintile”

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Booker calls for federal marijuana legalization with heavy taxation as a new revenue stream.

“when are we gonna finally federally legalize marijuana and tax the shit out of it so that we can create more revenue streams?”

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Booker says Democrats need a wave election and generational renewal rather than narrow victories.

“What I want for the Democratic Party is no more damn elections where one person gets 49.7 and the other person gets 49.3. We need a wave election”

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Booker argues the plan lets ordinary earners enjoy the kind of tax avoidance long available to the wealthiest.

“they pay an effective tax rate lower than a teacher or a firefighter or the people that are soldiers who are fighting right now in Iran”

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Booker says only one shooting during his time as Newark mayor involved a legally purchased gun, and that most gun owners support universal background checks.

“only one shooting in my city in all the years I was mayor was done by somebody who bought a gun legally”

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Booker argues Democrats should be focused on all PAC money in politics, not just AIPAC.

“People are talking about APAC, but why aren't we talking about all PACs?”

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Booker says he has joined a group of Democratic senators forcing repeated war powers votes to keep the Senate from ignoring the war.

“what we're doing right now is forcing world powers resolution votes. It's one of the privileged votes that an individual senator can force to the Senate floor”

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Booker argues the Justice Department under Trump has become destructive and should be renamed.

“they renamed the Department of Defense to Department of War. They should rename this to the Department of Injustice”

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