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Cory Booker Says Menendez Should Resign , Calls Allegations “shocking” with “disturbing details of wrongdoing”

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Washington DC, U.S. Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) on Tuesday morning said he wants his colleague, U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-NJ), to resign. The statement from New Jersey’s junior senator represents a change on the federal scene, where Menendez’s fellow caucus members have been reluctant to cast a stone at the indicted New Jerseyan:

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New Jersey State Policeman’s Benevolent Association President Calls Senator Bookers Tweets a “dangerous narrative to the ‘Defund the Police’ movement”

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Trenton NJ, New Jersey State Policeman’s Benevolent Association President Pat Colligan today sent a letter to U.S. Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ), criticizing him over a Tweet that the junior senator issued in response to the police killing of Ma’Khia Bryant.

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Booker Urges the Administration to Pay Its Member Dues to Corrupt and Incompetent World Health Organization

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WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ), a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee (SFRC), today led 14 of his Senate colleagues in pushing appropriators to include in its 2021 appropriations bill language requiring the Administration to pay the full amount of dues for each international organization that the U.S. is a member of, including the World Health Organization (WHO).

President Trump has said, “Had the WHO done its job to get medical experts into China to objectively assess the situation on the ground and to call out China’s lack of transparency, the outbreak could have been contained at its source with very little death,”

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