We are watching live as the senator from New Jersey, Corey Booker, who now holds the longest

record for Senate speech is on the 25th hour of his marathon remarks in opposition to the

Trump administration's creeping autocracy. Let's listen in. He is about to conclude what, again, is the longest

Senate speech in American history. Look at your financial self. Are you better off than you were

72 years ago financially? Well, the answer for most people who believed in him is no, because he didn't

set out to do anything to lower prices. He set out to rename the Gulf of

Mexico, to threaten Canada, to say I'm going to take over Greenland. He's done a lot of things, 140

executive orders, many of them actually drive up your costs, make it more expensive to enroll in the

ACA, reduce a lot of the tax credits there. He's increased your costs, taxed your bedrock services,

stock market tumbles, your 401 accounts or less, inflation is up, consumer confidence is down.

This is what the voices we brought into this chamber.

The voices of our constituents, red states, blue states,

the voices of Democrats and Republicans, Republican governors, Democratic governors.

We brought all the people that are saying, no, this is a moral moment,

not left or right, right or wrong.

And so I've tried over the last 25 hours in one minute

to center the conversation back on what will we do of good conscience. People who are saying,

I serve this country, I risked my life, shouldn't bail to keep my job. People are

saying this country once made itself the envy of the world because we invested in high quality

education for every child. I don't like what's going on at the end of the Department of Education.

People who are saying I worked harder than I ever have, but the prices on everything in my life

were getting higher. People who are saying that America I learned about in school, the one where people's rights are protected, the people are saying

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