What Cory Booker has said about United States war with Iran

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 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”

Pod Save America: Taxing Cory Booker's Patience (Apr 5, 2026) · Listen from 9:27

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”

Pod Save America: Taxing Cory Booker's Patience (Apr 5, 2026) · Listen from 10:34

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”

Pod Save America: Taxing Cory Booker's Patience (Apr 5, 2026) · Listen from 14:17