Gov. JB Pritzker had the perfect response to Trump’s National Guard threat

Pritzker put it succinctly: "Trump is defunding the police."

https://www.msnbc.com/top-stories/latest/jb-pritzker-trump-chicago-national-guard-democrats-rcna227536 

 

Why Speaker Johnson boasted about GOP cuts to law enforcement

Or put another way, the party that grew hysterical in response to "defund the police" rhetoric is now trying to score political points by rolling back funds for law enforcement...

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/speaker-johnson-boasted-gop-cuts-law-enforcement-rcna142200

Democrat points out Republican Bill would eliminate another key law enforcement agency

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqdAHJBlyU0

Trump’s call to defund DOJ, FBI puts Senate, House GOP at odds

Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) has championed the message this year that the Biden administration and Democrats around the country are weak on crime, but now he's faced with Trump supporters in the House threatening to cut funding for the nation's top law enforcement agencies…

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/3936557-trumps-call-to-defund-doj-fbi-puts-senate-house-gop-at-odds/

Fox News audience TURNS on Trump when asked simple question Live on Air

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-euMpoN_mE 

Donald Trump calls for defunding federal police after his arrest in New York

Trump and a handful of allies in the Republican-led House favor cutting money for the Justice Department and FBI ahead of a Sept. 30 deadline to fund the government...

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/donald-trump-calls-defunding-federal-police-arrest-new-york-rcna78301

House Republicans’ ‘very first bill’ to target law enforcement

Or put another way, the first legislative priority for the new House Republican majority is to undermine law enforcement.

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/house-republicans-first-bill-target-law-enforcement-rcna64868

CBO: GOP’s IRS bill will add $114B to deficit | The Hill

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimated Monday that the legislation would cut federal spending by $71 billion, but would reduce tax revenue to the tune of almost $186 billion. The net effect would be a $114 billion increase in deficits over the next decade…

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/3805913-cbo-gops-irs-bill-will-add-114b-to-deficit/

Proof that Republicans Know Exactly How Racist They Are (The New Abnormal podcast

There are so many examples of revisionist history happening these days, particularly among conservatives, that historian and University of Princeton professor Kevin M. Kruse joins this episode of The New Abnormal politics podcast to set the record straight. He tells co-host Andy Levy about his book Myth America: Historians Take On the Biggest Legends and Lies About Our Past, which is a complication of historians crushing those myths, and shares proof that contrary to Republicans’ denials, the party actively engages in the racist “Southern Strategy.” Plus, Nixon’s role in it all. Also in this episode: TNA co-host Danielle Moodie interviews Jim Freeman, a civil rights lawyer and author of the book, Rich Thanks to Racism: How the Ultra-Wealthy Profit from Racial Injustice, to talk about the Defund the Police movement and the role police unions are playing in stopping it from happening.

Interview: 

https://www.podbean.com/ew/dir-i8sky-161702a8

Republicans have a ‘very first bill’ in mind (and it’s a mess)

Right off the bat, as the House Republican leader surely knows, the Democratic policy in question didn't hire 87,000 IRS agents. In reality, the IRS will be bolstered by new employees, but many of them will simply replace retiring workers, and many more will simply work in the building as IT technicians and folks who answer the phone. McCarthy can jump up and down, shouting about 87,000 IRS agents every day for the foreseeable future, but the repetition won't make his lie any less wrong...

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/republicans-first-bill-mind-s-mess-rcna49377

The Police Are Defunding Minneapolis – Mother Jones

A combination of costs that all emerge directly from the police department has sent the city into a fiscal crisis...

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2022/08/minneapolis-police-defund-george-floyd-city-budget/

The Mar-a-Lago search and IRS funding spur defund-the-police calls — on the right - The Washington Post

This isn't the left's "defund the police." It's the right's "stop the FBI." It's the GOP's explicit opposition to boosting staff at the IRS...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/08/09/suddenly-its-right-that-wants-defund-law-enforcement/

Opinion | Republicans won’t tell you the homicide rate and other crime is just as bad where they’re in charge - The Washington Post

"Murder rates are actually higher in Republican, Trump-voting states that haven't even flirted with ideas like defund the police," including places that have been "GOP bastions for the last quarter of a century."…

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/03/22/crime-murder-rates-republican-cities/

Conversation with Judge Steve Leifman and Norm Ornstein (Al Franken podcast)

Judge Leifman has pioneered the widespread use of crisis intervention teams in Miami, saving lots of lives and money.

Interview: 

https://www.podbean.com/ew/dir-xsyk6-e0adc42

Rochester de-funded the police. Here’s what happened next | The Independent

… The reaction from the public, they say, has been nothing but positive…

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/crime/rochester-defund-police-daniel-prude-b1892534.html 

Opinion | Even the Squad is more pro-police than these Republicans - The Washington Post

… Democrats ought to be saying, as Biden aide Cedric Richmond did on "Fox News Sunday," "Republicans are very good at staying on talking points of who says defund the police, but the truth is, they defunded the police." Unlike GOP leadership, the numbers don't lie.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/06/29/even-squad-is-more-pro-police-than-these-republicans/

Fox's Chris Wallace catches Republican mid-lie, calls him out TO HIS FACE

https://youtu.be/QQOZLSZ-Yw8

‘Republicans are defunding the police’: Fox News anchor stumps congressman

"… but you and every other Republican voted against this $350bn."…
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/jun/28/chris-wallace-republicans-defunding-the-police-fox-news-congressman-jim-banks

Wallace has contentious interview with GOP lawmaker: Aren't you the ones defunding the police? | TheHill

 "But you and every other Republican voted against this $350 billion."
https://thehill.com/homenews/media/560432-wallace-has-contentious-interview-with-gop-lawmaker-arent-you-the-ones

Cruz Distorts Nominees' Defund Police Positions - FactCheck.org

Sen. Ted Cruz has falsely tried to label "every single" Senate Democrat as "supporting abolishing the police," based on a misleading interpretation of the words of two of President Joe Biden's nominees...
https://www.factcheck.org/2021/05/cruz-distorts-nominees-defund-police-positions/