US Democratic Senator Cory Booker has caused a stir following his animated speech on the Senate floor on Tuesday evening. He endorsed a resolution proposed by Republican Senator Tommy Tuberville to “block federal funding to local municipalities that ‘defund the police,’” as The New York Post puts it.
“This senator has given the gift that finally once and for all we can put to bed this scurrilous accusation that somebody in this great, esteemed body would want to defund the police,” Booker declared.
The Democratic senator’s statements elicited a somewhat mixed reaction on social media; while some netizens applauded his actions, others took a dim view.
The amendment proposed by Tuberville passed, with all 99 senators present voting for it.
“The American taxpayers in Alabama [shouldn’t] have to pick up the tab for the local leaders in Oregon and Minnesota who value the woke ‘Defund the Police’ movement over their own community’s safety,” Tuberville himself said during his remarks, as quoted by the newspaper.