pushing a radical program. the floodgates opened in 2020 when they came up with a bright idea to defund the police. they wanted us to believe take resources away from hot police would make us safer. major cities that embraced the idea found themselves in crime. and no city saw so much of a change in life than portland, oregon. portland jumped to the defunds the police movement in 2020. the council cut its budget by $15 million. in 2020 homicides increased 83% in portland. that trend continues in 2021 and 2022. the city tried to combat growing crime by refunding the police in late 2021. but the force is struggling to bring back officers. portland has become a prime example of how quickly a city can fall into anarchy when there is a break down in the rule of law. burning down buildings, squatters. violence in the streets. last year there was k at the pry crime, it s not much better. they hapull up and break into the front door and try to drag off the atm machine. some 2,500 s
pushing a radical program. the floodgates opened in 2020 when they came up with a bright idea to defund the police. they wanted us to believe take resources away from hot police would make us safer. major cities that embraced the idea found themselves in crime. and no city saw so much of a change in life than portland, oregon. portland jumped to the defunds the police movement in 2020. the council cut its budget by $15 million. in 2020 homicides increased 83% in portland. that trend continues in 2021 and 2022. the city tried to combat growing crime by refunding the police in late 2021. but the force is struggling to bring back officers. portland has become a prime example of how quickly a city can fall into anarchy when there is a break down in the rule of law. burning down buildings, squatters. violence in the streets. last year there was a 17% increase in burglaries. if you look at the property crime, it s not much better. they had a truck pull up and break into the front
say what you want about our president but when you wake up from that app he might doze off but infrastructure bill. [laughter] student loan forgiveness. [laughter] did we free brittany crime or? brittney griner. [laughter] the most scandalous, or madam vice president, the scandal of, what does kamala do? [laughter] a disrespectful question. because nobody ever asked that question the vice president until a woman got the job. [applause] nobody asked.
tonight but please be safe. if you find yourself disoriented and confused, too drunk or marjorie taylor green [laughter] thank you for hosting us. i love npr. [applause] they whisper into the mic like i do. [laughter] not everybody loves npr. elon musk tweeted it should be refunded. the best way to make npr go away is for elon musk divided. [laughter] that s more true than you think. anyway. [laughter] this dinner is one of the two great traditions of washington. the other one is underestimating me and kamala.
doing? and when you are doing, it s about how you are doing it which is the most important and he s like kamala? but it was a good time, man. [laughter] standby, jimmy. let s bring in our panel. fox news contributor joe concha as well as foxbusiness correspondent kelly o grady. i got to meet for the first time yesterday, so excited. we are always doing it across because she s in l.a., her office is next door to mine now. joe, a lot of fanfare, i just have to go to milley doing selfies. we are at an all-time low. we could be in a war very soon. our enemies don t respect us and you ve got woke four-star general doing selfies with the press. china may be going into taiwan soon. russia and ukraine, a stalemate, a goat go nuclear at some time.