The democratic US senator, Cory Booker, accused US President Donald Trump of “recklessly” attacking the democratic institutions of the nation in a speech of a marathon, which was approaching the record on Tuesday.
55-year-old legislator New Jersey in a speech that began at 19:00 ET on Monday and lasted on Tuesday and on Tuesday afternoon, he criticized the campaign by the Republican president and his key adviser Elon Musk, the richest person in the world to reduce the large swaths of the federal government.
“Our institutions are recklessly and unconstitutional and even broken,” said Booker, elected for the first time to the US Senate in 2013.
In the first weeks of the board, the Trump Administration moved to the government's shutter, including the US Education Department, he suspended the expenses approved by the Congress and questioned the rights of federal courts to limit its policy.
Democratic voters have been nervous in recent weeks, when Trump, supported by Congress controlled by Republicans, shook long -term American alliances and reduced over 100,000 federal employees. This anger was directed to both republican legislators and leaders of the Democratic Party, including the highest Senate Democrat Chuck Schumer, for cooperation with the Senate Republicans in order to adopt the act on financing the government, which avoided partial closing.
“Cory Booker is looking for the next moment” I am a spartacus “, but it did not work on his unsuccessful presidential campaign and the blocking of the candidate for the Supreme Court of President Trump, Brett Kavanaugh, did not work,” said the deputy press secretary of the White House Harrison Fields.
Booker is approaching the Record Senate
Until Tuesday afternoon, Booker was approaching the versatile Senate record in the longest continuous speech, which is currently in possession of the segregation Senator Strom Thurmond from southern Carolina.
In the summer of 1957, Thurmond began a Filibuster against civil rights, which lasted 24 hours and 18 minutes. Ultimately, Thurmond failed to block the law that extended the federal protection of vote rights to the black people.
Since the Booker's speech is not addressed to a specific act of legislation, this is not technically considered a filibuster, although he suspended other actions of the Senate.
The only thing Booker did was that a stream of other democrats appeared on the floor to ask him a question, allowing him to maintain control over his time of speaking.
Until Tuesday afternoon, he began to show signs of load. When he dropped a piece of paper from his desk, he looked down, he began to bend very slowly and carefully, to save him only after he was saved by another democratic senator Michael Bennet of Colorado, who came down with his help.
One topic of Booker's anger was the Muska campaign to lower the size and scope of the US government.