JUST IN: House passes police funding and public safety bills, which would provide grants to local police departments and mental health professionals, and fund organizations that work to reduce crime.
would provide grants to local police departments with fewer than 125 sworn officers. Another measure, sponsored by Rep. Katie Porter of California, passed 223-206;The two other bills were authored by Congressional Black Caucus members. The first, by Rep. Steven Horsford of Nevada,would fund nonprofit, community and faith-based organizations that work to reduce crime. The other, by Rep. Val Demings of Florida, who is trying to unseat GOP Sen.
“We’re not the ‘defund’ party, and hardly anybody in our party believes defund,” said Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md. “The Republicans, of course, don’t care about the facts — they know it’s a lie. We fund the police and they don’t.
Omar, who represents the Minneapolis district where George Floyd was killed by police in 2020, said these policing bills “create a path for our communities to be safe and feel safe.” "We are proud of the work that we have been able to do here collectively as Democrats with different ideologies," she told reporters."And I think this is a beginning of hopefully a process that we can continue to engage in."
But it’s unclear what happens to the package now. While there is Senate support for some of the House-passed bills, Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., has no plans to bring a policing package to the floor before the Nov. 8 midterm election.Scott Wong is a senior congressional reporter for NBC News.
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