White House blasts House GOP budget, says Biden won't let them 'defund the police'
White House says 'violent crime surged' under former President Trump
By Brooke Singman Fox News
Published March 25, 2024 2:31pm EDT
EXCLUSIVE: 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.
The comments come after the House Republican Study Committee released its Fiscal Year 2025 budget proposal, titled "Fiscal Sanity to Save America."
The White House is blasting the RSC for its proposal 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.
"Conservatives 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," the budget proposal states.
The White House is also hitting Republicans on the proposal to defend what the GOP calls the "constitutionally dubious red flag provisions in the so-called Bipartisan Safer Communities Act."
The White House is also accusing House Republicans of taking steps to support "abolishing the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF)."
"Violent crime surged under President Biden’s predecessor, but this president immediately fought back and has now reversed that trend with a historic reduction in crime," White House deputy press secretary Andrew Bates told Fox News Digital.
Bates said Biden took "unprecedented action to hire waves of police officers, invest in crime effective crime reduction strategies, and mental health services."
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