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Cory Booker: “Federal funds should not be used for partisan political…”

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

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Senate Debate on Bipartisan Law Enforcement Support Bills Led by Catherine Cortez Masto and Cory Booker

Published | Video Starts at 13:27

It is disgraceful, it is unfair, it is unjust, and it is dangerously reckless towards the officers whose well being they are jeopardizing. Officers like the ones I know personally who serve and protect New Jersey. Come on now. Federal funds should not be used for partisan political games. They shouldn't be weaponized to benefit this state that supported the President and this state that didn't support the President. This is the shift towards authoritarianism. (13:27–13:32)

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