Republican hardliners threaten US government shut down unless Biden slashes FBI spending
House Freedom Caucus is also demanding an end to 'woke policies' at the defence department and more money to be spent on border enforcement
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/09/10/republican-hardliners-threaten-shut-down-government-biden/Open linkView original on kbin.social
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Ah, yes, the party of "Law and order"
But this law org is arresting their voter base..
Why do republicans hate America?
They don't hate it, they're trying to take it over.
They just hate that it's not so easy to do that as is.
Nah they hate it. They hate diversity (people not like them), they hate freedom (to be gay), they hate everything America actually is and love the false memory of what they've been told America was.
They hate the majority of people who live here, and the laws that keep them from being as horrible as they want to, democracy, and any effort to protect the quality of the land, air, and water. It's hard to see what part of America, if any, they do like.
It's funny that they somehow think 'murica would be better if they had their way, yet in every single instance where they have had any power, they managed to fuck it all up beyond repair.
Defunding the FBI is just pure hate and spite. It's not part of a plan.
Isn't the Fbi tracking down jan 6th rioters, investigating Trump, and all the other things? Defunding them I think is an attempt at slowing all the evidence piling up against them.
If the Fbi were working in their favor, they'd be handing money over left and right.
Defunding the FBI won't slow down the Jan 6 investigation at all. They would simply reduce spending in other areas of crime fighting, such as foreign terrorism.
…..so republicans are now calling for DeFunDiNG tHe PoLicE?
Grand Obstruction and Projection
FTFY
Defund the people investigating us for the crimes we are 100% committing!
Sounds about right for republicans.
Then I guess the #GOP is shutting the government down again.
Didn't work out great for them the last times.
Do they know that phrase is embarrassing? It's unprofessionally vague.
A tiny sliver of the FBI budget goes towards investigating politicians/Republicans. I'm so fine with them wanting to lower a law enforcement orgs budget....
Rename the FBI and start another department called FBI and defund that
Wow. I'm all about abolishing the prison industrial complex, but I didn't anticipate that I'd be on the same side as the lunatic coup plotting fringe.
...what? Metal disability? And we don't even have a parliament.