On Wednesday, President Biden revoked former President Donald Trump’s September note instructing the federal bureaucracy to consider withdrawing funds from “anarchist jurisdictions,” including New York City, Portland and Seattle.
The Trump order, first published by The Post, was implemented by the White House Office of Management and Budgets and was based on the Justice Department’s determination that appointments tolerated violent crime or allowed protests. violent.
Biden’s decision to revoke the order appeared on a list of Trump’s actions that he repealed through a single executive order. Other repealed Trump actions include a note that promoted classical architecture for use in federal buildings.
The Biden order says that “heads of departments and executive agencies should consider promptly taking steps to overturn any order, rule, regulation, guideline or policy, or parts, implementing or implementing the identified presidential actions.”
The impact of the designation was potentially severe. New York City receives about $ 7 billion annually in federal aid. New York made the list to cut $ 1 billion from the NYPD budget amid nearly a triple of the shots in July and August.
The Trump administration’s designation put all three cities at a disadvantage in making decisions about federal subsidies, as Trump routinely condemned their responses to crime and social unrest after the death of George Floyd.
White House press secretary Jen Psaki noted during a briefing this month that the policy of “anarchist jurisdictions” could be dismissed.
“We are in a new administration and of course we are reviewing a number of policies and charting our own path. But I don’t think I have any comment on the policies of a year ago from the previous administration,” Psaki said in response. to a question from The Post.
Russ Vought, who was Trump’s director of the White House Office of Management and Budget and a leading advocate of the “anarchist” designation, told The Post this month that Biden should keep politics.
“My hope would be for the Biden administration to refuse to subsidize with taxpayer dollars a leadership failure at the state and local level that has caused unrest and destruction in many communities. It is my hope, not my expectation,” he said. say Vought, who is now president of the Center for American Restoration.