In case you missed it, after speaking out in the Senate against the GOP’s bill that cuts Medicaid and raises costs, U.S. Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) took his fight against Republicans’ agenda to New Jersey - holding multiple events with doctors and nurses, veterans, a small business owner, and construction workers to highlight how working families in New Jersey and across the country will be hurt by Republicans’ “moral obscenity.”
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Cory Booker tours North Jersey while speaking out against Trump's 'big beautiful bill'
By Lucas Frau
Sen. Cory Booker toured across North Jersey making multiple stops in different counties July 2 to speak out against President Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill" that passed the Senate a day earlier.
Booker started his voyage at 10 a.m. as he visited a mass transit infrastructure project. He then went to local businesses in Morris County before stopping at Valley Hospital in Paramus at 2 p.m.
"This is a sledgehammer to health care in America that will affect millions and millions of Americans," Booker said while in Paramus. "And for what? giving bigger tax cuts to the wealthiest among us. That's unjust."
Booker toured the hospital July 2 while highlighting the facility was made possible through government funding that will be taken away with the new bill.
Among the cuts to health care will be Medicaid, where here in New Jersey, 1.8 million people rely on the government health program. The slashes to health care spending could result in 360,000 people losing health insurance in New Jersey.
Booker is also worried what the "Big Beautiful Bill" will do to the American healthcare system. The senator also acknowledged the bill may endanger hospitals, as he said the bill will drive up healthcare costs.
The Valley Hospital showed the Senator new services, technology and infrastructure in place that was made possible through private and public funding.
"To pull out billions of dollars of resources endangers our ability to provide world class service," said Booker.
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Cory Booker Tells Followers: Turn Our Anger Into Action
By Breaking Local News Report
U.S. Senator Cory Booker voiced strong opposition Tuesday to the Republican-backed budget bill that cleared the Senate following a marathon overnight session, calling it a “moral obscenity” and urging action in the House to stop its passage.
“We must turn our disappointment and anger into action,” Booker wrote on social media, linking to a video statement recorded shortly after leaving the Senate floor. “We can still fight this bill in the House.”
Booker detailed a series of amendments Democrats introduced during what he described as the longest “vote-a-rama” in Senate history, including measures to protect Medicaid, preserve SNAP benefits, lower prescription drug costs, and block additional tax cuts for top earners.
“We filed amendments to try to save things like SNAP for hungry children,” Booker said. “We filed amendments to stop them from gutting Medicaid… to protect the Affordable Care Act, to protect Planned Parenthood, to blunt the ridiculously large deficit hole.”
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Senator Booker calls out how GOP agenda hurts workers at Portal North Bridge
“This bill is the biggest wealth transfer in American history - from the lowest income earners, the bottom twenty percent of hard working Americans that do some of the jobs we’re seeing around us right now.”
“It will take money from them, increase their costs, increase their health care burdens and transfer that money to the top twenty percent of earners who have made more money in the last two decades than ever before in American history.”
Booker: “This bill is bad because it creates trillions of dollars more in the deficit. This bill is bad because it cuts Medicaid from families that need it. This bill is bad because it cuts food assistance to families that are struggling. This is the Republican’s own words, and now it goes over the House. And so the question is going to be, will we be able to stop it there?”
Sen. Booker tours Portal North Bridge construction, project on track
By Sarah Goode
Booker: “At my veterans town hall in Passaic county today I heard from New Jersey patriots about the importance of Medicaid. The GOP’s cuts will be devastating to so many and to veterans already faced with few care options. So let me be clear…I am in this fight. We must kill this bill”
“A Moral Obscenity” Cory Booker on Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill
Booker calls Trump megabill a ‘moral obscenity’
By Tara Sutter
Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) said Monday that President Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” is a “moral obscenity.”
“I think it’s a moral obscenity, and it is violence in the sense of what it will do to many families by denying them health care when they’re sick, by denying them food when their children are hungry, denying our seniors critical care in their latter years, denying the disabled the kind of support that they need,” Booker said on MSNBC’s “Deadline: White House.”
Democrats have vehemently opposed the “big, beautiful bill” as it has made its way through Congress, with Booker saying Monday in a post on the social platform X that members of his party in the upper chamber were “standing up right now for our constituents who will lose their health care, who will face rising energy costs, and who will lose access to SNAP benefits.”
We have to do whatever we can to stop the ‘Big Beautiful Bill,’” Booker continued in his post.
House moderate Republicans and hard-line conservatives have recently expressed rising opposition to the Senate’s version of the “big, beautiful bill” only days before they are set to consider the legislation.
“This bill is a moral obscenity, and I’m stunned that only a few senators on their side of the aisle have even been willing to speak to the impact it will have on their states, their constituents,” Booker said Monday.
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Booker: “So I always tell people, before you tell me about your religion, first show it to me in how you treat other people. And I see now, people[...] push a bill that is so counter to what Jesus did. It’s to make the wealthier so much wealthier by gutting and cutting programs for the poor, programs for the sick, programs for the hungry, programs for the elderly, programs for the disabled.”