As Trump Shutdown Drags On, Booker Demands Action to Stop Looming Health Care Crisis: “We have to come together to lower health care costs for the American people”

In case you missed it, U.S. Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) is continuing to hear from New Jerseyans, release new digital videos, and appear in digital and traditional media interviews to stand up against the Trump shutdown and share how Democrats are fighting to save Americans' health care. While Republicans refuse to work across the aisle on a government funding bill to reopen the government and address the health care crisis they have manufactured, Booker is making his position clear: "I will continue to stand up for the people of our state and demand a resolution to the shutdown that addresses their spiking health care costs, no matter how long or how tough the fight"

Booker Hosts Virtual Shutdown Town Hall With Hundreds of New Jerseyans

October 10, 2025

Sen Booker: "I heard from New Jerseyans up and down our state who are worried about the looming tsunami of higher health care prices, at a time when their costs are going up on everything from groceries to energy. Americans want Republicans to drop the excuses, come to the negotiating table, and work with Democrats to pass a government funding bill that will address the looming tsunami of higher health care prices and get our government open. Working families in New Jersey should not be forced to choose between bankruptcy or their medicines, but that is the health care crisis Republicans have manufactured with their government shutdown.

PIX11

October 9, 2025

Sen. Booker: "I'm proud to stand up for New Jerseyans facing rising costs in the Senate, but the Republicans in the House are refusing to even show up. We have to come together to lower healthcare costs for the American people."

Fox5

October 9, 2025

Sen. Booker "We are fighting really hard to deal with what Americans, and frankly, in my state, New Jerseyans are yelling about: their health care costs are going up and their premiums in general are about to double. We are seeing hundreds of thousands of people in my state face a health care nightmare, and we just want them to come to the table and do something with us to end that pain."

CNN The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer

October 8, 2025

Sen. Booker: "What we have seen for the last four years, why there was no government shutdown, when Democrats controlled the House, the Senate, and the White House, is they brought all the parties to the table, and we did it in a bipartisan process. Donald Trump controls the White House. He has the most complicit set of Republicans in the House and the Senate. He controls them both. He has said in his own words in the past, it is up for the president of the United States to bring the parties together and get a budget passed. So to be saying that this is the Democrats is utterly wrong."

@SenBooker

October 8, 2025

Sen. Booker: "Even Marjorie Taylor Greene agrees there's a problem, that we have a health care crisis in this country of Donald Trump's creation. Their doing nothing is being complicit in the pain and the hurt and the fear that Americans have about seeing their premiums going up or losing their health care."

WNYC The Brian Lehrer Show

October 8, 2025

Sen. Booker "I've talked to board members for hospitals up and down New Jersey, many of them Republicans, that say, "You can't let this happen. We'll have to cut services." There'll be longer wait lines at hospital emergency rooms, because people without insurance will be using those emergency rooms as their primary care physicians, so we are standing strong on this simple thing. You control everything. If you want to get a budget done, do it like we've done it the last years, in a bipartisan manner. We know we're not going to get everything, but we're fighting to lower people's health care costs. Come to the table, and work with us on that."

The Dan Le Batard Show

October 8, 2025

Sen Booker: "The Democratic Party needs a reboot. We need to stop talking about what we are against but rather what we are for. We are for workers. We are for families that are struggling to raise their kids right now. And we are for an American dream that is under its worst assault."

CNN Anderson Cooper 360

October 6, 2025

Sen. Booker: "We are a country whose story is one of people, even in the midst of despair, choosing to be agents of hope through their willingness to stand up. Donald Trump is a dark force in our country, but he cannot diminish our light and the strength of that light is magnified and multiplied when more of us come together."

ABC's This Week

October 5, 2025

Sen Booker: "I can tell you right now, I represent New Jersey. Up and down my state, people are afraid. People are hurting. People who run hospitals, who run clinics are saying there is a tsunami coming to this state, this nation.

"We have to stand up and fight right now. This is a time where we all should be coming together to do something to alleviate the rising costs, the loss of health care, and the pain that Americans are about to get hit with."

See also:

10/1: Booker Statement on Trump Shutdown

9/9: ICYMI: Booker Says, "I Am Not Going to Support a Budget that Hurts New Jerseyans"