“Republicans are very good at staying on talking points of who says defund the police. But the truth is, they defunded the police. We funded crime intervention and a whole bunch of other things.”
Cedric Richmond
Director of the Office of Public Engagement. TV interview. Claim dated 27 Jun 2021.
FactCheck.org rated thisMisleading
What FactCheck.org found
House and Senate Republicans didn’t support the American Rescue Plan Act, but it wasn’t a vote to cut or eliminate federal funding for law enforcement, as the claim may have led viewers to believe.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Cedric Richmond (Director of the Office of Public Engagement) made this claim around 27 June 2021. FactCheck.org (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 6 July 2021, 9 days later. Its rating was “Misleading”.
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