Congressional Democrats grapple with police defunding efforts

Published June 8, 2020 11:27pm ET



Congressional Democrats are eager to avoid letting a police defunding movement overshadow a major police reform bill they unveiled on Monday.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told reporters Monday that “we could rebalance some of our funding,” so that some law enforcement money is directed to mental health and schools, while Democrats rejected outright police defunding at the federal level.

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