Thread by @equalityAlec

THREAD. A major scandal is happening right this moment on the House floor: mainstream Democrats are quietly trying to ram through a $1.9 billion *budget increase* to the Capitol Police, military, and DHS, supposedly because January 6 showed that they **need more funding.** (1)

For those of you new to this, of the many things that went wrong on January 6, insufficient funding for Capitol Police and bloated military bureaucracy was not one of them. (2)

https://twitter.com/equalityAlec/status/1367200645493710852

This is part of a long pattern: police work with liberal reformers to use their own violence, waste, brutality, and incompetence to justify increased budgets. (3)

https://twitter.com/equalityAlec/status/1367956165653651460

All people of good will must speak out against the latest attempt by the Democrats to waste money expanding state bureaucracy, violence, militarization, and surveillance. All of these instruments will be turned against the most vulnerable people in our society. (end)

Some of the only people opposing this violent nonsense are: @IlhanMN, @AyannaPressley, @CoriBush, @AOC, @JamaalBowmanNY, and @RashidaTlaib

UPDATE: Devastating news. This dangerous bill passed 213-212, with @RepAOC @RashidaTlaib and @JamaalBowmanNY abandoning their positions and voting "present" instead of against it, thus supporting giving cops more money and weapons to use against the most vulnerable people.