Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer will introduce a resolution this week that would repudiate former President Trump’s call to defund the FBI and Justice Department.
Republicans say it’s a reversal from 2020 when the New York Democrat led efforts to oppose a GOP resolution denouncing the defund the police movement supported by some liberal Democrats.
Mr. Cotton’s resolution was aimed at opposing activists and some Democratic lawmakers who demanded police funding be slashed or reallocated to social services after Floyd’s death, which sparked weeks of protests and deadly riots. Three years later, Mr. Schumer will hold a vote on a similar resolution, which he drafted after Mr. Trump earlier this month called on the GOP to cut funding for the Justice Department and FBI, “until they can come to their senses.”Mr. Trump made the demand after he was indicted by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg for allegedly making hush money payments.
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