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No Country for Law Men: The GOP
Votes to Defund the FBI
Mar 22, 2024

Republicans conditioned support
for the first tranche of spending
bills signed by the president on
March 9 on cutting $654 million
from the FBI budget—including $32
million that went to the heart of
operations, a cut that still left
far-right Republicans complaining
the cuts weren't deep enough.

In 1973, with the J. Edgar Hoover
era over at the FBI, Attorney
General Elliot Richardson refused
to follow President Nixon's order
to fire the Watergate special
prosecutor, and so did his deputy.
When it became evident that Hoover's
successor L. Patrick Gray was using
the FBI to do Nixon's personal
bidding rather than following the
law, it cost Gray his job. And so
it has been since. It had been an
article of faith in Washington
until the Trump Era that the
Justice Department, including the
FBI should not be tampered with by
the White House or Congress.

Honest law enforcement should be
a fundamental American commitment.
Congressional Republicans pressing
for the defunding of the FBI runs
firmly counter to our love for the
rule of law. They should rethink
what they did. A nation of laws
protects them too. A country of
men loosed from legal constraints
threatens them as much as it does
their opponents

https://www.newsweek.com/no-country-law-men-gop-votes-defund-fbi-opinion >-1882085

Good! The savings will go to tax cuts for the wealthy elite.

Good to see rightist politicians fulfilling their purpose, especially since
the FBI has been hassling Trump pretending that laws apply to him.

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