Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) argued Thursday that Democrats would be "capitulating" to President Donald Trump if they allowed the continuing resolution passed by the House of Representatives this week to sail through the Senate.
In an interview with CNN's Manu Raju, Booker said letting the government shut down was preferable to allowing Trump and tech billionaire Elon Musk continue to shut down entire federal agencies without any oversight or authorization from the legislative branch.
"This is saying let's just give up even more of our constitutional authority because, hey, he can do a lot worse later on," said Booker. "And so to me, that's capitulating to someone who's already showing that he's reckless and willing to do a lot of destruction. We are in a perverse, bizarro land where we're having to decide between letting Donald Trump wreck the government this way or wreck the government that way. So at what point do you say, 'I'm going to stand and fight?'"
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Raju noted that not all Democrats were on the same page, however, as Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) has said that he will vote to allow the bill to come to the floor because he does not believe a government shutdown serves anyone's interests.
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