April 2, 2025 9:29 AM

Democratic US Senator Booker takes on Trump in record-breaking speech

Democratic U.S. Senator Cory Booker accused President Donald Trump of "recklessly" challenging the nation's democratic institutions in a marathon speech that broke a nearly seven-decade record on Tuesday for length. The 55-year-old New Jersey lawmaker, in a speech that began at 7 p.m. ET on Monday and went on for 25 hours and five minutes, criticized the crusade by the Republican president and his billionaire top adviser Elon Musk to slash large swaths of the federal government. "Our instituti...