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Something 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 cows (lemmy.ml)

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (7 children)

Tripled the police budget?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (6 children)

Yes, Joe “We have to back the blue” Biden tripled the police budget during and after the BLM protests

[–] [email protected] -3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Also curious what police budget he doubled, I thought congress handled money

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] -2 points 2 months ago

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?

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