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In February 2018, a graphic attempted to blame Sen. Cory Booker (D-New Jersey) for a second brief shutdown of the U.S. federal government within a month with a fabricated statement: Besides losing coherence as it goes along in what we can only describe as sheer laziness, the post spreads a number of falsehoods: first of all, both DREAMers (the term for immigrant youths who would have been covered under the proposed DREAM Act) and enrollees in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program cannot vote. Conservatives have consistently insisted — without any proof to back it — that Democrats have benefitted from receiving millions of illegal votes, whether it be from undocumented immigrants or African-Americans. Further, the remarks about those sort of people and veterans having to pass their privlage [sic] were fabricated. And while the graphic fretted about a government shutdown, it was brief; President Donald Trump signed a congressional budget agreement early on 9 February 2018, which ensured that the government would continue to function. We contacted Booker's office seeking a response to the fabrications in the graphic, but did not receive a response by press time.
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