White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany ripped AOC on Wednesday after the firebrand leftist congresswoman said a drastic
$1 billion cut to the NYPD police budget was not enough — McEnany suggesting she wanted to get rid of cops altogether.
“It’s unacceptable when you have people like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez really suggesting where the Democratic Party stands today because taking a billion away from the NYPD officers wasn’t enough for her,” McEnany told reporters at Wednesday’s White House briefing.
“She wants to take it all away. She doesn’t want police officers and that’s a really unacceptable proposition,” she continued.
The Bronx Democratic Socialist this week
criticized a sweeping reduction to the NYPD budget after Mayor Bill de Blasio and the City Council on Tuesday night slashed $1 billion from the force’s $6 billion operating budget.
In a statement, AOC said the cuts were a “disingenuous illusion” and called for further defunding as the Big Apple experiences a surge in shootings and violence.
“This is not a victory. The fight to defund policing continues,” she said, referring to the movement to
reduce public spending on police and allocating it to initiatives for marginalized communities.
“Defunding police means defunding police. It does not mean budget tricks or funny math. It does not mean moving school police officers from the NYPD budget to the Department of Education’s budget so the exact same police remain in schools,” she continued
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