Bush’s tweet comes just hours after House Democrats announced a hearing on defunding the police for March 8th.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who has been called the “future” of the Democrat Party, is reportedly “pushing a litmus test for prospective candidates seeking their endorsement, demanding they pledge to slash police funding.” 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.
- Rep. Cori Bush then doubled down in her support for defunding our police departments on Twitter.
- In February, Bush said she would not stop calling for our police departments to be defunded.
- 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.