“Is that not proposing to defund the police?”: Reporter questions Mike Johnson at “Police Week” presser on GOP budget.

Speaker Johnson, we've heard a lot this week about Democrats supporting defund the police. The Republican study committee budget cuts the main federal grant program that local departments use to hire officers. How is that not proposing to defund the police? I haven't looked into the details of the RSC budget. There's lots of nuances. They also plus up other areas where you support law enforcement because that's a central theme of what we believe. It's part of our worldview. It's part of our party platform and it will always be consistent. You know, a lot of the Democrats in the House now are trying to revise history and pretend as though and even say that they never supported defund police. But I served on House Judiciary and I have some pretty famous vignettes, viral videos where I went through and literally took all the time reading all of their quotes. I mean, it's top Democrats in the House who just a few years back were all on board with defunding the police. And we told them at that time and we remind them again today that that's a fool's errand. You cannot defund the people who keep your community safe, obviously. But they did it anyway. They said it anyway. And in some of these communities, they actually went forward with that policy. And that's the places around the country where you have the greatest levels of crime. And the people are crying out for change. And I think you'll see a lot of that reflected in the election cycle in November.