{"id":293521,"date":"2021-07-08T02:46:31","date_gmt":"2021-07-07T23:46:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/washington-post-knocks-white-house-for-claim-gop-defunded-police\/"},"modified":"2021-07-08T02:46:31","modified_gmt":"2021-07-07T23:46:31","slug":"washington-post-knocks-white-house-for-claim-gop-defunded-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/washington-post-knocks-white-house-for-claim-gop-defunded-police\/","title":{"rendered":"#Washington Post knocks White House for claim GOP defunded police"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Washington Post knocks White House for claim GOP defunded police<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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The Washington Post took a dim view of the Biden administration\u2019s recent claims that Republicans support defunding police departments across America, with one of the paper\u2019s fact-checkers slapp<\/a>ing \u201cThree Pinocchios\u201d on the talking point Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Top Democrats, including White House adviser Cedric Richmond and White House press secretary Jen Psaki, have claimed that the GOP turned their back on law enforcement by voting against the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan earlier this year. President Biden said last month that states and cities could use approximately $350 billion in aid from the law to combat rising crime, including by hiring more police officers.<\/p>\n

\u201cAlthough Republicans all opposed Biden\u2019s coronavirus relief package, no one voted to cut, or defund, anything,\u201d Salvador Rizzo wrote<\/a> in a piece headlined: \u201cThe White House\u2019s slipshod claim that Republicans are defunding the police\u201d. <\/p>\n

\u201cRather, Democrats proposed $350 billion in emergency funds for state and local governments, and Republicans voted against those extra funds,\u201d Rizzo added. \u201cThat\u2019s not a reduction.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rizzo went on to note that the $350 billion Biden referenced last month was technically earmarked as \u201cstate and local aid\u201d, with \u201cno guarantee that police would get a slice of the pie.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201c[V]oting against a one-time infusion of cash is not the same as voting to cut funding, so there is little basis to claim that Republicans are trying to \u2018defund the police,’\u201d he concluded.<\/p>\n

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Democrats and the Biden White House claimed that Republicans were trying to defund the police by opposing the \u201cAmerican Rescue Plan.\u201d<\/figcaption>
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The White House claim has been met with fury by Republicans, with Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), calling it a \u201ccalculated, cynical lie\u201d in an op-ed published by Fox News<\/a> Monday. <\/p>\n

\u201cFor them to come out and claim that it\u2019s Republicans who want to defund the police, that\u2019s like an arsonist showing up at the fire and blaming the firemen,\u201d Cruz told the same outlet last week. \u201cThat\u2019s like the Chinese blaming the Americans for the Wuhan virus. That\u2019s like OJ [Simpson] saying he\u2019s gonna help find the real killer.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cruz added at the time that the White House argument was the latest example of Democrats \u201ctrying to claim, \u2018These aren\u2019t the droids you\u2019re looking for\u2019 and they\u2019ve never supported it [the \u2018defund the police\u2019 movement] \u2026 It\u2019s absurd [and] it\u2019s ridiculous.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Biden administration responded to Cruz\u2019s claims last week by pointing to Republican support for former President Donald Trump\u2019s proposal to excise $170 million from the Justice Department\u2019s Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) program. <\/p>\n

According to Rizzo, \u201cPsaki and the White House are on more solid ground by framing this talking point in terms of the COPS program \u2026 That\u2019s the only thing keeping this talking point from being a Four Pinocchio claim.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThree Pinocchios,\u201d according to the Washington Post fact-checking rubric, are given to claims that contain \u201c[s]ignificant factual error and\/or obvious contradictions.\u201d Pinocchios are awarded on a scale of one to four, with \u201cFour Pinocchios\u201d being the most severe rebuke.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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