“They eliminated the funding for community policing.”
What Washington Post found
Trump in his 2019 budget plan proposed to cut the funding in half, but that’s not the same as zero. In 2019, the COPS program received $304 million, an increase from the year before.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Joe Biden (former vice president) made this claim around 15 October 2020. Washington Post (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 16 October 2020, 1 day later. Its rating was “False”.
Joe Biden has 509 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 140 of them false or fake, 281 misleading or mixed and 34 true.
Where the claim appeared
- abcnews.go.comhttps://abcnews.go.com/Politics/read-full-transcript-joe-bidens-abc-news-town/story?id=73…
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