President JoeBiden and White House officials called for state and local leaders to spend more of what they received from the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan on police.
Biden dedicated much of his Friday afternoon to the push, while a White House fact sheet called out Republicans for opposing the wider bill providing the money."The answer is not to defund the police — it's to fund the police," the president said during a Rose Garden address, repeating a line from January's State of the Union speech."Fund them with the resources and training they need.
During the briefing, Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas told reporters he's planning to hire 150 more police officers, while Detroit Police Chief James E. White said ARP money had allowed him to implement programs to improve community relations and hire a diversity, equity, and inclusion director for his department.
Psaki added that Biden is putting federal agents on the street and cracking down on firearms to stem the murder hike, but she repeated his comments from the campaign, endorsing reforms to bail policies that penalize poorer people. "Unfortunately, every Republican in Congress voted against the American Rescue Plan public safety funding for cities and rural counties across the country," reads a portion of the White House fact sheet.
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