The Republican Party, since the rise of Trump, has consistently been in favor of defunding the police. Trump’s defunding of the police has involved slashing federal grants to local law enforcement. Trump’s budgets have consistently called for lower police funding.

On Tuesday, Gov. Kathy Hochul of New York said that Trump is defunding the police in her state by refusing to release counterterrorism funds: “Let me translate that in real simple terms: Donald Trump is defunding the police.”