The White House is blasting House Republicans and accusing them of taking steps to defund the police, while claiming President Biden will protect law enforcement and support crime-reducing programs.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The comments come after the House Republican Study Committee released its Fiscal Year 2025 budget proposal, titled\u00a0\u2018Fiscal Sanity to Save America.\u2019<\/p>\n
The White House is blasting the RSC for its\u00a0proposal to reduce funding for Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS), a program created in the 1990s as a means to support state and local law enforcement agencies with expenses like salaries, court programs and juvenile justice programs.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u2018Conservatives support our men and women in blue but should question whether the government should involve itself in state and local law enforcement, even if it is only a matter of funding,\u2019 the budget proposal states.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The White House is also hitting Republicans on the proposal to defend what the GOP calls the \u2018constitutionally dubious red flag provisions in the so-called Bipartisan Safer Communities Act.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n
The White House is also accusing House Republicans of taking steps to support \u2018abolishing the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF).\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u2018Violent crime surged under President Biden\u2019s predecessor, but this president immediately fought back and has now reversed that trend with a historic reduction in crime,\u2019 White House deputy press secretary Andrew Bates told Fox News Digital.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Bates said Biden took \u2018unprecedented action to hire waves of police officers, invest in crime effective crime reduction strategies, and mental health services.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u2018Joe Biden won\u2019t let Congressional Republicans defund the police, abolish law enforcement agencies like the FBI, gut crime prevention, or rollback landmark legislation critical to the fight against gun crime,\u2019 Bates told Fox News Digital.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The White House touted Biden\u2019s American Rescue Plan, saying communities across the country have been able to invest more than $15 billion \u2018to keep their communities safe and prevent crime.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u2018These include investments to avoid cuts to police budgets, hire more police officers for safe, effective, and accountable community policing, ensure first responders have the equipment they need to do their jobs, and expand\u00a0community violence intervention and prevention programs,\u2019 the White House said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The White House said Biden\u2019s budget also includes $1.2 billion over five years to launch a new \u2018Violent Crime Reduction and Prevention Fund.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u2018The President\u2019s budget also funds his Safer American Plan, including providing for hiring 100,000 additional police officers for effective, accountable community policing,\u2019 the White House said, adding that Biden \u2018wants to deploy $17.7 billion for DOJ law enforcement, including $2.0 billion, an increase of over 30 percent since 2021, for the ATF.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n
But the RSC is now calling out the White House, saying their budget proposal points out that COPS funding has drastically increased since the Trump administration as a result of Democrat-led cities \u2018needing bailouts\u2019 after \u2018defunding their own police departments.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n
The RSC told Fox News Digital that the White House is now latching onto an argument that actually \u2018highlights how Democrats really are defunding the police around the country.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u2018Conservatives versus Biden on crime \u2013 the record couldn\u2019t be more different,\u2019 RSC Executive Director Joe Barry told Fox News Digital. \u2018RSC\u2019s budget doesn\u2019t subsidize sanctuary cities or local entities who have embraced the defund the police movement.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n
Barry added: \u2018We are committed to upholding the rule of law.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n
And a spokesperson for House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., told Fox News Digital that House Republicans \u2018oppose President Biden\u2019s disastrous budget, which would raise taxes by $5 trillion and create the largest debt-to-GDP ratio in history.\u2019<\/p>\n
\u2018In contrast, the House GOP budget would reduce deficits by trillions and balance the budget over the next decade, while protecting Social Security and Medicare,\u2019 the Johnson spokesperson told Fox News Digital.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n
The White House is blasting House Republicans and accusing them of taking steps to defund the police, while claiming President Biden will protect law enforcement and support crime-reducing programs.\u00a0 The comments come after the House Republican Study Committee released its Fiscal Year 2025 budget proposal, titled\u00a0\u2018Fiscal Sanity to Save America.\u2019 The White House is blasting <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":17273,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-17272","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-politics"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17272\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}