{"id":1354421,"date":"2022-03-02T08:05:15","date_gmt":"2022-03-02T13:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1354421"},"modified":"2022-03-02T09:47:37","modified_gmt":"2022-03-02T14:47:37","slug":"democrats-really-are-pretending-they-were-never-for-defund-the-police-less-than-two-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrats-really-are-pretending-they-were-never-for-defund-the-police-less-than-two-years-ago\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrats Really Are Pretending They Were Never for \u201cDefund the Police\u201d Less Than Two Years Ago"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdemocrats-really-are-pretending-they-were-never-for-defund-the-police-less-than-two-years-ago%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1354421&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/state-of-the-union-98166-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"story-text\">\n<div class=\"story-meta\">\n<p class=\"story-meta__credit\">House Republicans, including House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy and Minority Whip Steve Scalise, stand and applaud as President Joe Biden delivers his State of the Union address. | Win McNamee\/Pool via AP<\/p>\n<div class=\"story-meta__authors-timestamp has-social-tools\">\n<div class=\"story-meta__details\">\n<p class=\"story-meta__authors\">By <span class=\"vcard\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/staff\/ben-leonard\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"noopener\">Ben Leonard<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-meta__timestamp\"><time datetime=\"2022-03-01 22:27:55\">03\/01\/2022 10:27 PM EST<\/time><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-meta__updated\">Updated:<br \/>\n<time datetime=\"2022-03-01 23:32:29\">03\/01\/2022 11:32 PM EST<\/time><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"social-tools\"><\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"story-text__paragraph\">President Joe Biden on Tuesday drew bipartisan applause \u2014 including from House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy \u2014 for his calls to fund the police in his State of the Union address.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-text__paragraph\">\u201cWe should all agree: The answer is not to defund the police. It\u2019s to fund the police,\u201d Biden said to strong applause, with cameras showing McCarthy and House Minority Whip Steve Scalise clapping and giving him a standing ovation. \u201cFund them. Fund them. Fund them with resources and training.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-text__paragraph\">Biden touted funding from the American Rescue Plan \u2014 the pandemic relief package passed under his watch \u2014 that local governments can use to bolster police forces. Biden\u2019s push against \u201cdefunding the police\u201d echoes the recent stance of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who <a class=\"js-tealium-tracking\" href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2022\/02\/13\/pelosi-defund-police-democrats-00008449\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-debug-source-uuid=\"0000017e-f396-d39c-abfe-ff971d940001\" data-debug-source-site=\"POLITICO\" data-tracking=\"mpos=&amp;mid=&amp;lindex=&amp;lcol=\">last month said that the slogan is \u201cdead\u201d<\/a> and not Democrats\u2019 position.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"story-text\">\n<p class=\"story-text__paragraph\">The moment was a significant display of bipartisan unity in a divided Congress.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-text__paragraph\">Biden has long rejected the concept of defunding the police, a push from some progressive Democrats that Republicans have used frequently to attack the opposing party.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-text__paragraph\">The police reform movement gained momentum after George Floyd\u2019s murder in 2020, but reform efforts have stalled in Congress. On Tuesday, Biden called on lawmakers to pass legislation requiring universal background checks and banning assault weapons, frequent calls from the president that face long odds of passing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-text__paragraph\">Biden\u2019s remarks come after Democrats\u2019 own research recently showed that some voters in battleground districts think the party is \u201cpreachy\u201d and \u201cfocused on culture wars,\u201d <a class=\"js-tealium-tracking\" href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2022\/02\/15\/gop-culture-war-attacks-alarmingly-potent-dccc-warns-00009265\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-debug-source-uuid=\"0000017e-ffab-df48-a77f-ffabce1d0001\" data-debug-source-site=\"POLITICO\" data-tracking=\"mpos=&amp;mid=&amp;lindex=&amp;lcol=\">POLITICO previously reported<\/a>. The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee warned that unless Democrats more vocally rebutted Republicans\u2019 attacks on issues like defunding the police, they could lose substantial ground to the GOP in the upcoming midterm elections.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-text__paragraph\">Rep. Cori Bush (D-Mo.), one of the most vocal supporters of the push in Congress to defund the police, <a class=\"js-tealium-tracking\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CoriBush\/status\/1498866983835783171\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-tracking=\"mpos=&amp;mid=&amp;lindex=&amp;lcol=\">slammed Biden on Twitter<\/a> for not mentioning \u201csaving Black lives\u201d in his address and repeated her calls to defund the police. In his speech Tuesday, Biden didn\u2019t mention racial issues or a push for equity \u2014 which has been a common refrain in his administration.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-text__paragraph\">Last month, Pelosi specifically referred to Bush in saying that defunding the police wasn\u2019t the party line.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"below-story-text\" class=\"below-story-text\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Republicans, including House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy and Minority Whip Steve Scalise, stand and applaud as President Joe Biden delivers his State of the Union address. |<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1354421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1354421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1354421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1354421\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1354421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1354421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1354421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}