Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) said the festering U.S. government shutdown is a “tsunami of Donald Trump’s creation.”
As the shutdown enters a new week with Congress still struggling to pass a bill to fund the government, Booker told ABC News’ “This Week” co-host Martha Raddatz that he’s not focused on lobbing the blame at either political party.
Instead, he said he’s more concerned about the impact the shutdown is having on Americans’ health and personal finances.
“I don’t care about the blame game. I care about Americans, losing their health insurance, rates of death going up, hospitals being crushed, medical services ending in places in rural America,” Booker said. “This is a tsunami of Donald Trump’s creation.”
He continued, “The pain, the hurt, the fear that’s going to rise amongst millions of Americans who are going to lose health insurance.”
