Social media, Team Trump react to Cory Booker's 'meltdown' over Elon Musk's USAID crackdown

Social media users are slamming a Democratic senator's impassioned code opposing a halt to millions of payer dollars being funneled to controversial, DEI-aligned programs overseas.

Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., spoke astatine a rally extracurricular the Capitol gathering Wednesday successful protestation of Elon Musk's sweep of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).

"We volition combat their usurpation of civilian work laws. We volition combat their usurpation of civilian rights laws. We volition combat their violations of separation of powers. We volition combat their violations of our Constitution of the United States of America," Booker said. "We volition not unopen up. We volition instrumentality up. We volition emergence up."

Trump's accelerated effect squad called retired Booker for opposing cuts to the bureau backing arguable programs, which, according to the White House, gave $1.5 cardinal to "advance diversity, equity and inclusion successful Serbia's workplaces and concern communities."

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Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., speaks astatine a rally successful enactment of USAID connected the grounds of the U.S. Capitol Feb. 5, 2025, successful Washington, D.C. (Chip Somodevilla)

"Why is Cory Booker truthful aggravated astatine the thought of making definite American taxation dollars are spent to further the nationalist involvement of the United States and not connected things similar ‘LGBT activism’ successful Guatemala?" Team Trump wrote successful a station connected X, formerly Twitter. 

"Cory Booker is having an implicit meltdown due to the fact that we don't privation American taxation dollars to beryllium wasted connected bizarre projects successful foreign countries," LibsofTikTok wrote.

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New Jersey authorities Sen. Mike Testa, a Republican, wrote that Booker is "grandstanding connected behalf of overseas favored projects" alternatively of "standing up for the volition of his constituents."

"New Jerseyans person been kicked successful the look and forgotten by their United States Senators for years," Testa said connected X. "We merit a hellhole of a batch better."

"Sen. Cory Booker is BIG MAD that lesbian creation therapy for Ethiopians volition nary longer beryllium paid for by US taxation dollars Why are Democrats similar this?" wrote different user, Nick Sorter.

The White House released a detailed report outlining USAID spending implicit the past fewer years, including $15 cardinal connected contraceptives and condoms that ended up successful the hands of the Taliban and different $20 cardinal allocated to money Sesame Street successful Iraq.

The funds were awarded by the Biden medication to a nonprofit called Sesame Workshop to nutrient a amusement called "Ahlan Simsim Iraq" successful an effort to reportedly "promote inclusion, communal respect, and knowing crossed ethnic, religious, and sectarian groups." 

Protesters gathered extracurricular the Capitol Monday rally against Elon Musk's crackdown connected USAID spending. (Fox News Digital)

Musk has been starring the complaint to exposure and chopped backing from USAID arsenic portion of his spending crackdown astatine the newly-formed Department of Government Efficiency. 

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Hundreds of activists, including respective Democratic members of Congress, gathered Wednesday to protestation the USAID cuts and knock Musk's relation successful the Trump administration.