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Cory Booker: “A large percentage of Americans don't pay federal income…”

Featuring: Cory Booker, Democratic | U.S. Senate, New Jersey

Cory Booker GOES OFF on Trump and Democrats' Tax Plan

Published April 5, 2026 | Video Starts at 50:09

A few other things. Here's my question about it. If you believe the majority of Americans shouldn't be paying income tax shouldn't be paying income tax on their first … A large percentage of Americans don't pay federal income taxes now either. … that right now people are not getting the value from their taxes that they ought to be getting? Like we all I want to hire. I want a more progressive income tax. (50:09–50:13)

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“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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“He has told us, I want to take Cuba. He has told us that, hey, maybe I will take Greenland as well.”
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“We will never be able to achieve justice and independence for Palestinians without Israeli security and there'll never be Israeli security…”
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“I'm leading Democrats on trying to sanction people who are committing these atrocities in the West Bank.”
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“Benjamin Netanyahu is a horrible person who enabled October 7th and has failed to take accountability.”
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“He's got an election coming up this year and I hope the people of Israel not only vote him out but then jail him because he obviously has…”
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“I will continue to try to be someone who finds a way in every way possible, leveraging my position on the Foreign Relations Committee as a…”
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“My office and most senators have staffs that are better than them. We were using the way we were trying to position ourselves as people that…”
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“We found ways that perhaps we would not have been able to, to get sick Gazan children out because we could have communications with people…”
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“I see our adversaries who have warehouses full of people who just go onto our social media and try to whip up the conflicts that we have…”
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“The biggest threat to our democracy which was shown in the time of the Civil War and the heroism of Douglas and Lincoln who found a working…”
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“I had no idea who this person was until a few days ago.”
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“It's the law of the land now.”
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“Most gun owners, most NRA members agree on universal background checks, but yet we can't pass that legislation.”
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“My part was the community violence intervention money and getting a lot of that into communities like mine in New Jersey.”
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“I was one of the first people in Congress to say no corporate PAC money.”
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“This cuts child poverty in half.”
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“When are we gonna finally federally legalize marijuana and tax the shit out of it?”
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“We kill Citizens United.”
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“The highest court in the land won't have the lowest ethics laws like they do right now.”
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“We better deliver and deliver big and bold like FDR did with our version in our generation of the New Deal.”
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