By Steve Neavling
House Republicans are now the ones defunding the police.
The GOP-led House approved a spending package that would cut 6% from the FBI’s budget, 7% from the ATF and 3% from the Justice Department.
House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., boasted of reductions “to some of the agencies that we believe are really overreaching and have been turned in some ways against the American people.”
The cuts come just a few years after Republicans falsely accused Democrats of wanting to “defund the police” following the murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer.
In a statement, the House Appropriations Committee said the spending package “utilizes the power of the purse to address the weaponization of the growing bureaucracy within the FBI and ATF.”
Many Republicans have turned against the FBI for investigating Donald Trump, while also claiming crime is out of control in cities.
The budget cuts, of course, could make it more difficult to fight crime.
Republicans defunding the police! How ironic and hypocritical!