Sen. Cory Booker: The 60 day war gives Congress a chance
Brian Lehrer: A Daily Politics Podcast
WNYC Studios
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🗓️ 28 April 2026
⏱️ 24 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | from WNYC Studios. I'm Brian Lehrer. This is my daily politics podcast. It's Tuesday, April 28th. |
| 0:14.8 | We're joined now by New Jersey Senator Cory Booker as he looks ahead to a Friday deadline that you may not have heard |
| 0:21.9 | about. May 1st, Friday, marks the 60th day of the Iran War, the deadline under the 1973 |
| 0:29.1 | War Powers Resolution for President Trump to either secure congressional authorization for the |
| 0:34.7 | conflict or wind it down. Senator Booker is one of the lead sponsors of the |
| 0:39.0 | Senate War Powers Resolution, which, quote, directs the removal of United States Armed Forces |
| 0:44.9 | from hostilities with Iran that have not been authorized by Congress, unquote. Senate Republicans |
| 0:51.9 | have blocked five of these war powers resolution since the war began. |
| 0:56.6 | According to Senator Tim Kane, Democrat, Democrats are pushing more resolutions before and after May 1st. |
| 1:03.7 | With three days left on the clock, will the next vote go any differently? |
| 1:07.7 | We'll ask Senator Booker in just a moment, but Iran is not the only thing on |
| 1:11.2 | the senator's plate two weeks ago. He voted for the first time for him to block arms sales to |
| 1:17.5 | Israel along with 39 other Democrats. He also rolled out his Keep Your Pay Act, a major tax |
| 1:24.4 | proposal aimed at affordability. And yesterday, the senator joined forces with those maha moms outside the Supreme Court |
| 1:33.0 | speaking at a rally on the Roundup pesticide case. |
| 1:36.9 | Senator Booker, you've been very busy. |
| 1:38.6 | Thanks for making some time for us this morning. |
| 1:40.7 | Welcome back to WNYC. |
| 1:42.6 | Brian, I'm grateful to be back on. You know, I'm a fan of your |
| 1:45.5 | program. I want to say that last segment. I just hope your viewers understand how stunning |
| 1:51.0 | this moment in American history is, where you have a president with RFK, who literally was involved |
| 1:58.5 | in trying to stop this cancer-leaked chemical from saturating our food |
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