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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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
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.
Slush fund. Where’s Hunter?
Bull! The only thing he has urged is demanding the kitchen staff put bananas in his jello. "I keep forgetting I'm the President!".
Polling must be really bad for “Are you enjoying the crime PANDEMIC bought to you by the Democratic Party?”
The obvious effects of the AntiFa/BLM crime wave, which Democrats encouraged, must have really, really bad focus group results.
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