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Sen. Kelly Loeffler, R-Ga., is introducing a bill Monday that would withhold federal highway funding from states and local governments that reduce funding to law enforcement without a clear budgetary need amid the "defund the police" push from some Democrats, Fox News is told.“We’re seeing the radical idea of defunding the police play out in real-time in places like Minneapolis, Minnesota and Seattle, Washington, and it is frightening,†Loeffler said in a statement.The “Protecting Public Safety and Supporting Law Enforcement†Act would require the U.S. Secretary of Transportation to withhold five percent of certain highway safety funds from any state that elects to reduce funding to law enforcement. It also stipulates that if a local government elects to otherwise reduce funding to law enforcement, states will withhold these funds from the locality.
Makes sense. They don't need highway funds where truckers won't drive.
No, I am against it. Big Fed imposing itself...I say let em. That is a problem that will soon fix itself, and the pain of it may well be a necessary lesson.
Agree with @roamer_1. Local police funding is a local issue, FedGov has no business trying to influence it so long as Constitutional rights of the local citizens are not violated.
