Karine Jean-Pierre Blames Crime Surge on Republicans

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JEAN-PIERRE: “ — surged under the previous administration, which repeatedly attempted to cut the COPS program. All of their budgets — targeted that they — that key funding for police. And congressional Republicans just proposed doing it again. So, this is a President — this Biden-Harris Administration have done the polar opposite, taking decisive action from the very beginning to fund the police and achieving a historic reduction in crime under his leadership.”