Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, you can try to rewrite history, but it just doesn't work. Let me just read off the Democratic-run cities that did defund the police. Here is the game the Democrats want. All during the summer of 2020, they were saying: Defund the police. Democratic-run cities all over the country were doing so. Now they say: Oh, but because crime went up when we defunded the police, we want Federal taxpayers to send us money to make up for the cuts we did there and spent the money elsewhere. That was the game. If you don't believe me, here is the list: Austin, Texas, $150 million cut; Boston, Massachusetts, $12 million cut; Burlington, Vermont, $1.1 million; Denver, Colorado, $55 million; Eureka, California, $1.2 million; Hartford, Connecticut, $2 million; Kansas City, Kansas, $42 million; Los Angeles, $150 million; Madison, Wisconsin, $2 million cut; Minneapolis, $8 million; New York City, $1 billion cut that summer; Norman, Oklahoma, $865,000; Oklahoma City, $5.5 million; Philadelphia, $33 million; Portland, Oregon, $16 million; Salt Lake City, $5.3 million; San Francisco, $120 million; Seattle, Washington, $69 million; Washington, D.C., $15 million--we know about the crime that has happened in this city; and of course, in the ranking member's home State of Maryland, Baltimore cut their police department $22 million. Now they are saying: Oh, make sure the Federal money keeps coming.…”