Hate America SQUAD votes AGAINST funding capitol police. Nasty nancy scrambling.
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'Squad' vote against Capitol police funding makes Pelosi scramble, exposing perils of slim majority
Emily Brooks 6 hrs ago
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One day after the House passed a bill to form a commission to investigate the Jan. 6 mob attack on the Capitol, it was set to pass a $1.9 billion bill aimed at beefing up security in the Capitol complex.
Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar, Ayanna Pressley posing for the camera© Provided by Washington Examiner
But House Speaker Nancy Pelosi discovered she had a problem: A group of far-left Democrats dubbed the "Squad," many of whom have endorsed defunding or redirecting money from local police departments, took issue with the increased funds to Capitol Police and other items in the bill.
Democratic leadership gathered on the House floor and whipped votes, keeping a procedural vote open for over an hour to shore up its passage. Shouts of "Let's go" and "Order" could be heard from the floor.
Pelosi ultimately prevailed, and the bill passed with a final vote of 213 yeas and 212 nays with three voting present. But the razor-thin passage exposes a threat to her management of the slimmest House majority since the 1930s, and it revealed a rare glimpse of how the "Squad" can use that to their advantage to potentially influence leadership.
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Democratic Reps. Cori Bush of Missouri, Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, and Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts joined with Republicans to vote against it.
Another three Democrats recorded "present" rather than voting in favor or against the bill: Reps. Jamaal Bowman and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, and Rashida Tlaib of Michigan.
All voting Republicans cast "nay" votes, with two Republicans abstaining: Rep. John Carter of Texas and Rep. Daniel Webster of Florida.
“Increasing law enforcement funds does not inherently protect or safeguard the Capitol Hill or surrounding D.C. community,” said Bush, Omar, and Pressley in a joint statement following the vote on Thursday. “We cannot support this increased funding while many of our communities continue to face police brutality while marching in the streets, and while questions about the disparate response between insurrectionists and those protesting in defense of Black lives go unanswered.”
The bill, they added, does not address "the underlying threats of organized and violent white supremacy."
Democrats can afford only a handful of defections on any bill. The 2020 election already left House Democrats with the slimmest majority since the 1930s, and vacancies created by deaths or members moving to the Biden administration temporarily complicate that majority even more.
There are currently 219 Democrats, 211 Republicans, and five vacancies in the House.
The "Squad" rebellion also exposed how House Republicans, despite their own internal conflicts, will band together when there is a chance of striking down a Democratic bill.
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Other Democrats did not agree with the left-wing objections to funding the Capitol police.
"All of us have benefited from the police presence to protect us against a violent, fascist insurrection," said Maryland Democratic Rep. Jamie Raskin, who was an impeachment manager during the second impeachment of former President Donald Trump following the Jan. 6 attack, to reporters. "I know the Republicans don't care about it and are — and are voting against law enforcement, but we've got to stand with law enforcement."
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