"It should not be possible in America for one single man — even an elected president — to stop funds which Congress has already allocated," said Booker near the beginning of the speech on Monday evening. Under Senate rules, an individual senator can hold the floor indefinitely but must speak continuously through that entire time without sitting down, taking a bathroom break, or otherwise leaving the floor, and can only pause to yield to other senators for questions.

Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) on Tuesday set a new record for the longest floor speech in Senate history, having held the floor for at least 24 hours and 19 minutes to decry potential GOP spending cuts in their looming tax bill and policies put in place by the Trump administration.

The New Jersey Democrat was not protesting any single proposed bill and was therefore not a filibuster, despite temporarily preventing the Republican majority from voting on other measures and presidential nominees. Rather, Booker stated he was motivated by a “complete disregard for the rule of law, the Constitution, and the needs of the American people” by Trump and Elon Musk, the world’s richest man and close Trump confidant who manages the administration’s spending cuts and layoffs through the so-called Department of Government Efficiency.