Cory Booker: “These were bills that would allow Donald Trump to. It was a…”

“Which is basically what you were arguing that moment in order to make people sit up and see that we're sliding toward autocracy. Well, no, I. And I'm sorry, you misinterpreted what I was doing there. These were bills that would allow Donald Trump to. It was a grant program for local police departments, but he had said he would. Those grants would not go to New York, New Jersey, Illinois, and like, wait a minute, let's support these grant programs, but put my amendment in that says that the executive can't undermine the congressional intent and every state can equally apply. So that, to me, was a fundamental assault on the separation of powers that we should not be participating in. Okay. Yeah, got it. If.” (22:21–22:43)

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