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On the recordMarch 1, 2021
from the streets of Portland and Seattle to right here in our Nation's Capital, lawlessness has ensued all too often across our Nation over the past year. I have consistently called it what it is--anarchy. And, folks, we need to be absolutely clear on this: Anarchy cannot be tolerated in our Nation. The mayhem that we have seen over the last year has put our families, our communities, and our law enforcement in danger, and tragically it has led to death and destruction. In what will probably come as no shock to the American people, a nonpartisan watchdog organization found that the Federal Government has spent more than $14 billion of our taxpayer money, our hard-earned dollars, on Federal contracts and grants in five major cities where civil unrest, also known as anarchy, goes unchecked and police are unable to do their jobs--14 billion with a ``b'' dollars paid to local leaders and city officials who are failing to do their jobs. Let's keep talking about these dollar figures, folks. According to recent reports by local media in Oregon, leftwing protests in Portland have caused roughly $2.3 million in damage to Federal buildings since they broke out last summer. The near-nightly standoffs with police involved graffiti, broken windows, firecrackers, as well as Molotov cocktails. According to one U.S.…
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Joni Ernst
Republican · Iowa

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