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Cory Booker: “The Department of Justice is right now withholding funds…”

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 12:37

Rather than supporting law enforcement agencies and officers equally across the nation, they are weaponizing public safety grants to punish state and local jurisdictions that resist the Trump policy agenda, including my home state of New Jersey. The Department of Justice is right now withholding funds from law enforcement agencies across the country, including New Jersey. that we have passed through this body in a bipartisan way, unless they enforce the administration's unjust immigration agenda and comply with the President's unjust and unlawful executive orders and memoranda. (12:37–12:47)

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Asserts that the Department of Justice is withholding funds from law enforcement agencies, including those in New Jersey.

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