‘The Facts Are The Facts’: Jim Jordan Slams Democrat-Run Cities That Cut Millions In Police Funding

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During House floor remarks on Tuesday, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) spoke about previous efforts to defund the police.

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00:00Mr. Speaker, you can try to rewrite history, but it just doesn't work.

00:04Let me just read off the Democrat-run cities that did defund the police.

00:08And here's the game the Democrats won.

00:10All during the summer of 2020, they were saying defund the police.

00:13Democrats-run cities all over the country were doing so.

00:16And now they say, oh, but we want the federal taxpayers because crime went up when we defunded the police.

00:20We want federal taxpayers to send us money to make up for the cuts we did there,

00:24and we spent the money elsewhere.

00:25That was the game.

00:26If you don't believe me, here's the list.

00:29Austin, Texas, $150 million cut.

00:32Boston, Massachusetts, $12 million cut.

00:35Burlington, Vermont, $1.1 million.

00:37Denver, Colorado, $55 million.

00:40Eureka, California, $1.2 million.

00:42Hartford, Connecticut, $2 million.

00:43Kansas City, Kansas, $42 million.

00:45Los Angeles, $150 million.

00:47Madison, Wisconsin, $2 million cut.

00:49Minneapolis, $8 million.

00:50New York, New York City, $1 billion cut that summer.

00:56Norman, Oklahoma, $865,000.

00:59Oklahoma City, $5.5 million.

01:01Philadelphia, $33 million.

01:02Portland, Oregon, $16 million.

01:04Salt Lake City, $5.3 million.

01:06San Francisco, $120 million.

01:08Seattle, Washington, $69 million.

01:11Washington, D.C., $15 million.

01:13And we know about the crime that's happened in this city.

01:16And, of course, in the ranking member's home state of Maryland, Baltimore cut their police department $22 million.

01:22And now they're saying, oh, make sure the federal money keeps coming.

01:28And, look, I'm not against some of these grant programs, but we'll look at all those.

01:31But don't say you didn't cut the defund the police.

01:34You did.

01:35Everyone knows you did, and you all talked about it, and you cheered it on.

01:39You said for the bad guys who harmed the police that summer when you were encouraging cities to cut the police,

01:44the bad guys who were putting you, you were raising money to bail them out.

01:47But your presidential candidate was raising money to bail them out.

01:52So you can have all the revisionist history you want.

01:56The facts are the facts.

01:57And with that, I reserve.

01:59The gentleman from Ohio Reserves.

02:01The gentleman from Ohio Reserves.

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