By Tim Graham | July 14, 2021 | 9:50am EDT
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Here s an easy test to see whether fact-checking websites can make any claim to be independent and nonpartisan in tone. Biden staffers claimed Republicans defunded the police. That s a bald-faced lie.
On the June 27 Fox News Sunday, White House aide Cedric Richmond claimed that because Republicans uniformly voted against President Joe Biden s massive American Rescue Plan for coronavirus relief, they somehow defunded the police.
Republicans are very good at staying on talking points of who says defund the police. But the truth is, they defunded the police. We funded crime intervention and a whole bunch of other things.
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