Spectre to United States | News & [email protected] • edit-23 months agoSomething that I realized about the fediverse is that you seem to be able to criticize the USA as a whole, but if you criticize the Democrats you get downvoted. Democrats suck they are not sacred cowslemmy.mlimagemessage-square489fedilinkarrow-up1705
arrow-up1705imageSomething that I realized about the fediverse is that you seem to be able to criticize the USA as a whole, but if you criticize the Democrats you get downvoted. Democrats suck they are not sacred cowslemmy.mlSpectre to United States | News & [email protected] • edit-23 months agomessage-square489fedilink
minus-squareSpectreOPlinkfedilink11•3 months agoYes, Joe “We have to back the blue” Biden tripled the police budget during and after the BLM protests
minus-squareSpectreOPlinkfedilink5•3 months agohttps://www.reuters.com/world/us/white-house-adds-334-mln-boost-community-policing-hire-more-officers-2023-11-02/ https://www.yahoo.com/news/president-biden-2023-budget-increases-154615051.html https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/31/us/biden-police-budget-increase/index.html
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink1•3 months agoNot seeing the word triple there at all, weird.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•3 months agoAlso curious what police budget he doubled, I thought congress handled money
minus-squareSpectreOPlinkfedilink4•3 months agohttps://www.reuters.com/world/us/white-house-adds-334-mln-boost-community-policing-hire-more-officers-2023-11-02/ https://www.yahoo.com/news/president-biden-2023-budget-increases-154615051.html https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/31/us/biden-police-budget-increase/index.html
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•3 months agoThank you for the links! So grants and budget proposals, that makes sense. Those are the only 2 vehicles for the white house to add funding, right? The white house cant just “increase the police budget” right?
Yes, Joe “We have to back the blue” Biden tripled the police budget during and after the BLM protests
What police budget?
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/white-house-adds-334-mln-boost-community-policing-hire-more-officers-2023-11-02/
https://www.yahoo.com/news/president-biden-2023-budget-increases-154615051.html
https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/31/us/biden-police-budget-increase/index.html
Not seeing the word triple there at all, weird.
Also curious what police budget he doubled, I thought congress handled money
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/white-house-adds-334-mln-boost-community-policing-hire-more-officers-2023-11-02/
https://www.yahoo.com/news/president-biden-2023-budget-increases-154615051.html
https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/31/us/biden-police-budget-increase/index.html
Thank you for the links! So grants and budget proposals, that makes sense. Those are the only 2 vehicles for the white house to add funding, right? The white house cant just “increase the police budget” right?