Quotes
This is how we will stop cuts to Medicaid, this is how we will stop Trump and congressional Republicans' devastating agenda, this is how we will rise,
Booker said on X at the end of the sit-in IT MUST BE DONE. We will unleash Economic Prosperity, and accelerate into the Golden Age of America,
Trump said of his "big, beautiful bill." Enough. This is not America. We will continue to show up, speak up and stand up until we end this national nightmare."
Jeffries also brought a message for House Republicans, saying That bill, we believe, presents one of the greatest moral threats to our country that we've seen in terms of what it will do to providing food for the hungry, care for the elderly, services for the disabled, health care, health care for the sick and more,
Booker said at the beginning of the sit-in The [budget] cuts, when we're talking about cuts, people bleed and we should put names behind them,
I’m sure you didn’t expect last year, when thinking about this birthday, that I would be your birthday date in this location, but this, of course, is the moment that we find ourselves in.”
After wishing the senator a happy birthday, the minority leader told him Martin Luther King said, 'Budgets are moral documents,' and that's the spirit we come here with this morning,
Booker said before he urged supporters to join the two men online or in person We are in this moment where this Congress is going to come back tomorrow from a two-week recess and the Republican leaders on (the House) side of the Capitol are saying that they’re going to force a bill through,
We’re either going to choose the side of the American people or we’re going to choose this cruel budget that Republicans are trying to jam down the throats of the American people,
Being angry, being loud feels good, but is it a productive long-term strategy?”
Marie Gluesenkamp Perez of Washington state responded We can’t keep doing things like business as usual,
This is a moral moment in America. Sitting on the Capitol steps with Leader Hakeem Jeffries this morning to discuss what’s at stake with Trump’s budget and affirm the need for action to protect Medicaid, food assistance, and other safety net programs.”
Booker wrote separately on X Republican leaders have made clear their intention to use the coming weeks to advance a reckless budget scheme to President Trump’s desk that seeks to gut Medicaid, food assistance and basic needs programs that help people, all to give tax breaks to billionaires,
Booker and Jeffries said in a statement You have Democrats appropriately, and I’m working with them, talking about Trump’s movement toward authoritarianism, vigorously opposing the so-called reconciliation bill to give over a trillion dollars in tax breaks for the 1% and make massive cuts to Medicaid, nutrition and housing, opposing what Musk is doing to dismember the Social Security Administration and the Veterans Administration, making it hard for our veterans to get decent healthcare or benefits on time,
Sanders told NBC’s Meet the Press Given what’s at stake, these could be some of the most consequential weeks for seniors, kids and families in generations,
We discussed a lot one on one. Hoping for results on everything we covered,
Zelensky wrote following the sitdown, calling it a “very symbolic meeting that has potential to become historic, if we achieve joint results.” Maybe he doesn’t want to stop the war, he’s just tapping me along, and has to be dealt with differently, through ‘Banking’ or ‘Secondary Sanctions?’
