Punchbowl News reporter Max Cohen said Booker was “heated” when he left the Senate floor. “The Democratic Party was about to give Donald Trump tens of millions of dollars when he has already told the Democratic Party, ‘I’m not gonna let blue states have this,’” Booker told the outlet.

Angrily screaming at two of his shocked Democratic colleagues, his words all but reverberating off the chamber walls, Booker blocked the passage of several bipartisan bills that would fund police programs, arguing that President Donald Trump’s administration has been withholding law enforcement money from Democratic-leaning states.

What might have been the fairly routine passage of several police-related bills on the Senate floor this afternoon turned into a surprisingly bitter