Every member of the far-left “Squad” and dozens of other House Democrats voted Friday against a resolution condemning calls to “defund the police,” which have preceded a record-breaking spike in violence against law enforcement officers.
The House still overwhelmingly passed the measure in a bipartisan 337-61 vote, denouncing the anti-cop movement, declaring support for officers in the line of duty and expressing condolences to the family members of those who have been killed while serving.
Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.), Cori Bush (D-Mo.), Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), Greg Casar (D-Texas), Summer Lee (D-Pa.) and Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) opposed the measure, along with more than 50 other Democrats.
Following widespread riots in the summer of 2020, Democratic leaders like then-House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn of South Carolina blamed their far-left flank for dragging down the party in the subsequent election with the “defund the police” movement — and President Biden and others have since tried to flip the script by dinging Republicans for opposing federal funding to the FBI.
“The ascendancy of violent anti-police radicals in our society is condemnable, and today’s House Republican-led effort to condemn pro-criminal actors and their violent ‘defund the police’ ideology while simultaneously signaling our full support for law enforcement professionals is a step in the right direction to restoring sanity to our national discussion on policing,” said Long Island GOP Rep. Anthony D’Esposito, a former NYPD detective.
No Republicans voted against the measure.