Well, howdy there internet people, it's Boa again.

So today we are going to talk about a talking point, a presidential talking point point no less.

We're going to do this because Donald Trump keeps bringing something up

and talking about it over and over and over again and the more he talked about it, the more I remembered that I took basic civics and

what he was saying just didn't add up.

So I decided to start adding stuff up and in the process I found out that NPR done pretty much all the work for me.

Thanks guys.

If you don't know, President Trump is attempting to paint this image that Joe Biden is going to defund the police

and then there will be chaos in the streets.

It's just going to be uncontrollable. It's going to be madness. Now if

you're a Biden supporter, yes I understand Biden didn't say this, the president is

just making it up. I've got that, okay? But let's just pretend

for a moment that Biden does. He becomes president and then he

defunds the police to the best of his ability.

What does that look like?

Okay, so you have the cops program, which is community-oriented policing services.

In 2020, it had $400 million to give away.

You have the Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant Program, and in 2019 it had 264 million.

I don't have this year's numbers.

There is also a DHS preparedness grant program. It has a budget of 1.8 billion, but only 25% of that

has to go to law enforcement. So that's 450 million, but it doesn't matter.

We're going to go ahead and take the full $1.8 billion dollars because there are some smaller

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