Rep. Cori Bush (D-MO) found herself in hot water over the weekend when she doubled down on Twitter in her support for defunding the police.

Instead of walking back her comments, Bush is standing by them.

According to Axios:

“Rep. Cori Bush (D-Mo.) says she’s not going to stop using the slogan “defund the police” ahead of this fall’s midterms…” 

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“‘Defund the police’ is not the problem,” she added. “We dangled the carrot in front of people’s faces and said we can get it done and that Democrats deliver, when we haven’t totally delivered.”

Bush’s call for police to be defunded comes at a time when violent crime is skyrocketing because Democrat-run cities defunded their police departments.

MAKE NO MISTAKE: Bush is NOT the only Congressional Democrat that supports the radical defund the police movement. It’s a view that many of them support. Bush just has the courage to stand by it consistently despite the constant public backlash.

DEMOCRATS WHO SUPPORT DEFUNDING THE POLICE: 

• President Biden famously expressed support for the Defund the Police movement during an interview in 2020 but was forced to walk back his position after public backlash to his position.
• Vice President Kamala Harris applauded Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti for defunding the police.
• Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said, “defunding police means defunding police.” Arguing the cuts to the NYPD weren’t enough.
• Rep. Ayanna Pressley said she supports efforts to defund police departments.
• Rep. Rashida Tlaib called for ‘no more police.’
  • Tlaib’s campaign has paid over $150,000 to an anti-Semitic and defund the police activist, Rasha Mubarak.
• Rep. Ilhan Omar said “not only do we need to defund, we need to dismantle” Police Departments.
• Rep. Cori Bush said that she would “make sure” she has private security for her protection while simultaneously promising to defund the police for the rest of America.
  • This weekend, Rep. Cori Bush doubled down in her support for defunding our police departments on Twitter.
• President Biden’s Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke supported efforts to “defund the police.”
• President Biden’s Associate Attorney General Vanita Gupta said officials must heed calls to “decrease police budgets and the scope, role, and responsibility of police in our lives.”
• President Biden’s Secretary of Labor, Marty Walsh, proposed a budget to divert funding from law enforcement.