Spectre@lemmy.ml to United States | News & Politics@lemmy.ml · 2 months ago

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

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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

Spectre@lemmy.ml to United States | News & Politics@lemmy.ml · 2 months ago

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Tripled the police budget?
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  Yes, Joe “We have to back the blue” Biden tripled the police budget during and after the BLM protests
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    What police budget?
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      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
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        Not seeing the word triple there at all, weird.
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    Also curious what police budget he doubled, I thought congress handled money
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      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
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        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?