Debunking the White House’s GOP ‘Defund the Police’ Talking Point in Five Sentences or Less

After a week of gaslighting from the briefing room podium, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki failed to produce any proof to back up the administration’s absurd claim that Republicans want to “defund the police.”

Psaki has repeatedly claimed and doubled down on the narrative that Republicans “defunded the police” by voting against the Democrats’ massive stimulus bill. But a quick search of the 242-page bill she references reveals that the words “police,” “law enforcement,” “cops,” “COPS program,” or “Community Oriented Policing Services” were mentioned exactly ZERO times.

Reminder: Democrats blamed “defund the police” rhetoric as a liability in their party’s losses last cycle and recent polling verifies it’s still a problem for them. 

For more than a year, Democrats cheered from the sidelines as police budgets were slashed across the country. Now that crime has become a major concern among American voters, they’re desperately trying to rewrite history.