Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) lit up the Senate floor this week with a fiery and expletive-laced outburst aimed squarely at his own party—an unusually public display of frustration that left fellow Democrats stunned and signaled a deeper rift inside the caucus.
With his voice echoing through the chamber, Booker blocked several bipartisan policing bills and accused the Trump administration of withholding federal law enforcement funds from blue states.
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