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Cory Booker: “Americans are hurting right now. They think their government…”

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Published June 6, 2026 | Video Starts at 10:52

Free. Royal LaGuardia said there's no Democrat or Republican way to fix a pothole. You just got to fix it. Americans are hurting right now. They think their government is corrupt. It is. They think that they're paying higher and higher prices, working Harder than their parents, but making less. They are. And don't just tell me how bad the other guy is. (10:52–10:57)

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Asserts that Americans believe their government is corrupt, and affirms that it is indeed corrupt.

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“Strom Thurmond had the record in the Senate for the longest speech, and it was a filibuster, I would even say a racist rant against the…”
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“The voting rights stopped Southern states from disenfranchising black people by drawing crazy maps that meant a state like Louisiana where a…”
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“Democrat in Texas not to have fair representation. They can make up 55% of the voting population and only have a third 30% of the…”
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“Republican in California now to Maybe make up 40% of the vote but only have 20% of the congressional representation.”
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“They cut a trillion dollars out of Medicaid.”
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“Children's brains, 90% of their brain development happens in the first five years.”
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“Right now in most states it costs more for child care than it does for tuition at the state college.”
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“The First Step act that's gotten literally thousands of people released from unjust incarceration.”
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“[Strom Thurmond's speech] was a shadow, I felt, and that was one of the ambitions I had of standing on the floor at a time that many of us…”
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“The attacks on healthcare, on USAID, and America's real presence globally, stopping pandemics and standing in the breach during some of the…”
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“They think that they're paying higher and higher prices, working harder than their parents, but making less. They are.”
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“Raise the standard deduction to $75,000. And if you're making your family's making $75,000, you're paying no, no federal income tax.”
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“If you're making for your family in New Jersey and you know these families, making $110,000 for your family income, you got two kids, that…”
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“She's a single mom making $60,000 a year with a young child. She would keep 10% of her money, $6,000 more.”
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“Another pillar that we got to be about is ending the corruption. Corrupt Supreme Court, corrupt Congress, corrupt executive.”
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“What the Supreme Court says is we don't need that anymore. And what are all those states doing? They're redistricting to eviscerate black…”
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“The Supreme Court says the law that stopped [racial gerrymandering], we're taking that away.”
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“The Supreme Court said in Rucho vs Common Cause that partisan gerrymandering is undemocratic and that we can't stop it.”
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“Every Republican voted for partisan gerrymandering. Every Democrat in Congress voted against it.”
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“That is putting in jeopardy every hospital system in New Jersey.”
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“Hundreds of thousands of New Jerseyans are going to lose their care.”
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“I've passed legislation with Donald Trump Opportunity Zones, which has gotten hundreds of millions of dollars of new investment in New…”
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“In New Jersey right now, there are thousands of New Jersey kids that are have money in a savings account for them.”
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