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Biden, Warning of Crime Wave, Diverts COVID Funds to Police in Snub to Progressives
newsweek.com ^ | 6/24/21 | AILA SLISCO

Posted on 06/24/2021 10:47:57 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper

President Joe Biden has urged state and local governments to use $350 billion in COVID-19 funding from the American Rescue Plan to fight crime by hiring new police officers.

Biden pushed for the increase in police funding during a White House press conference with Attorney General Merrick Garland on Wednesday. The president stressed that money already included in the legislation that he signed into law on March 11 could be used to help reduce gun violence amid the nation's recent surge in violent crimes.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: banglist; biden; budget; covid19; crime; police
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1 posted on 06/24/2021 10:47:57 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
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To: Berlin_Freeper

This seems to be a form of Line-Item veto.
Wasn’t that frowned upon when republicans were President???

Not meaning to imply that slojo is president of ANYTHING, however


2 posted on 06/24/2021 10:51:47 PM PDT by Oscar in Batangas (An Honors Graduate from the Don Rickles School of Personal Verbal Intercourse)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

How’d that happen? Did he have an accidental moment of lucidity? Blind squirrel/nut? Threw a dart? Polling data/focus group response? Meds wore off? No telling.


3 posted on 06/25/2021 1:05:11 AM PDT by Free in Texas (Celebrate diversity. Own firearms of every caliber. )
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Slush fund. Where’s Hunter?


4 posted on 06/25/2021 1:17:03 AM PDT by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: Berlin_Freeper
President Joe Biden has urged state and local governments...

Bull! The only thing he has urged is demanding the kitchen staff put bananas in his jello. "I keep forgetting I'm the President!".

5 posted on 06/25/2021 1:34:46 AM PDT by Veggie Todd (Religion. It's like a History class. Without the facts. )
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To: Free in Texas

Polling must be really bad for “Are you enjoying the crime PANDEMIC bought to you by the Democratic Party?”


6 posted on 06/25/2021 2:05:40 AM PDT by BiglyCommentary
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To: Berlin_Freeper

The obvious effects of the AntiFa/BLM crime wave, which Democrats encouraged, must have really, really bad focus group results.


7 posted on 06/25/2021 5:02:49 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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