House Republicans have introduced a new funding bill that would defund critical law enforcement programs that reduce crime.
According to House Appropriations Committee Republicans, their appropriations bill would do the following:
– Hold the FBI accountable for targeting ordinary Americans, cut its budget and force major reforms.
– Prevent the FBI from developing a new headquarters building in the Capitol area by restricting the FBI from using existing building balances to maintain the J. Edgar Hoover Building.
– Requesting that interviews with the FBI be taped.
– Reversing the anti-Second Amendment excesses of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) and defunding ATF regulations on handgun braces and privately manufactured firearms.
– Canceling Attorney General Garland’s October 4, 2021 memo to the FBI that targeted parents for speaking out at school board meetings.
– Defund Executive Order 14092, which calls for a ban on assault weapons.
– Defunding the federalization of state and local policing practices.
– Reduce funding for certain DOJ litigation divisions in response to DOJ abuses of the FACE Act.
– Increase oversight of Department of Justice grant programs and funding.
– Eliminate unnecessary and wasteful procedures.
The House Appropriations Committee’s list lacks details about program cancellations and funding cuts.
White House spokesman Andrew Bates filled the void with a statement, “This morning, Republican officials once again sought to defund law enforcement for the benefit of violent criminals and fentanyl traffickers, with the goal of stopping gun crime. , a federal agency critical to terrorism. Previously, 80% of House Republicans supported cutting the COPS program to defund the police despite the skyrocketing murder rates he inherited from his predecessor. Unprecedented funding, coupled with the signing of the first major gun crime bill in three decades, has driven violent crime to a 50-year low, and President Biden is working to build on that progress and hire 100,000 more people. police and pass the toughest bipartisan border security deal in modern history Congressional Republicans need to work with Joe Biden to fight crime—not the other way around.
When a political party is led by a 34-time convicted felon, these are the funding priorities it sets.
Reduced funding for federal law enforcement helps criminals and increases crime. House Republicans and Trump have been trying to cut funding for law enforcement for years.
President Biden will never sign a bill to defund law enforcement, a move by House Republicans that is clearly intended to hurt President Biden by attacking his record of success in reducing crime.
