National Urban League Enthusiastically Supports Booker's Principled Stand Against Trump Administration's Extremist Agenda

NEW YORK (April 2, 2025) — As Sen. Cory Booker's record-breaking denunciation of the Trump administration concluded in its second day,  the National Urban League offered enthusiastic support for his amplification of the voices of Americans who are being harmed by its extremist agenda.

"Senator Booker speaks for the American families who fear the loss of access to affordable healthcare, for marginalized communities whose protection from discrimination and violence is being stripped away, for law-abiding immigrants who face deportation, imprisonment, and persecution," National Urban League President and CEO Marc H. Morial said. "He speaks for the millions of Americans who are asking, as he asked on the Senate floor, how much more can we endure before we say enough is enough?"

Booker's speech is the longest ever delivered on the Senate floor, significantly breaking the record set by Strom Thurmond's filibuster against the Civil Rights Act of 1957. The National Urban League has partnered with Booker on a range of public policy issues, including police reform, voting rights, and economic policies that uplift poor, working-class and aspiring middle-class Americans, and has honored Booker on several occasions in recent years.

The National Urban League is one of more than 150 organizations and individuals who have sued the administration to challenge its unconstitutional, regressive, and racially discriminatory policies.

"So much of the administration's agenda is built upon False narratives and misstatements of facts," Morial said. "We stand with Senator Booker and all those who refuse to be intimidated and insist on speaking the truth."