And while the Republicans are encouraging this corruption. They they're abandoning actual victims of violent crime and ignoring the Republican led state's 21st century murder crisis. In September's appropriation markup, Congressional Republicans propose reducing the FBI staff by thousands of positions and underfunding the agency by more than 1 billion. They've proposed slashing resources from the ATF. They've proposed cutting grants for juvenile justice programs and hate crimes and eliminating the Community Violence Intervention and Prevention grants. They're literally defunding the police. (06:15–06:26)
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Asserts Republicans proposed reducing FBI staff and underfunding by over $1 billion.
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