President Biden’s 2023 budget plan, released Monday, increases funding for the police, cementing his party’s turn away from the anti-police rhetoric and policies many lawmakers and activists embraced after the murder of George Floyd two years ago.
The plan sent to Congress allocates more than $32 billion to fighting crime, with $20.6 billion going to the Department of Justice and $3.2 billion toward funding local and state law enforcement, much of it in the form of grants to hire more police officers.
“Budgets are statements of values, and the budget I am releasing today sends a clear message that we value fiscal responsibility, safety and security at home and around the world, and the investments needed to continue our equitable growth and build a better America,” Biden said in a statement released by the White House.
The proposal also slaps a new minimum tax on billionaires and allocates new spending to bolster Ukraine's resistance to the Russian invasion, as well as to aid the country’s response to the resulting humanitarian crisis.
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