Can Fact-Checkers Answer Whether Republicans Defunded the Police?
By Tim Graham | July 14, 2021 | 9:50am EDT Displayed is a police officer's badge. (Photo credit: APU GOMES/AFP via Getty Images) 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 poli...