Democrats target swing seat House Republicans over Trump's 'defund' FBI remark.
"Such an appointment underscores the department's commitment to both independence and accountability in particularly sensitive matters," Garland said at the time.
Republicans, for their part, have continued to knock Democratic stances on law enforcement, highlighting a resolution that many Democrats in the House voted against last week that would have denounced "calls to defund, disband, dismantle or abolish the police." For years, Republicans have highlighted a call among progressives to "defund" or reallocate the police funding -- hammering Democrats more broadly as, in their words, soft on crime even though leading Democrats like President Joe Biden have repeatedly rejected the "defund" label.
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