Two major policing organizations are disputing Republican Sen. Tim Scott's account of how negotiations over a policing overhaul plan broke down last week https://t.co/i5fUoA00mz

— CNN (@CNN) September 29, 2021

Congress doesn’t have the power to “defund the police,” which more reporters should have pushed back on when Tim Scott claimed it. The only enforcement mechanism it has is to potentially withhold grant funding – which is why Tim Scott proposed doing just that in his original bill https://t.co/YfoYaBhQuT

— Wesley (@WesleyLowery) September 28, 2021

Police groups say ‘defunding the police’ was not proposed in reform talks, counter to GOP senator’s claim https://t.co/B7uCoghovy

— Post Politics (@postpolitics) September 29, 2021

Three times in this interview, @SenatorTimScott defines conditional grants to police departments — offering to *give* them money if they comply with rules such as banning chokeholds — as "defunding" police.

The phrase "defund police" has lost all meaning. https://t.co/DTrW7U6tVn

— Will Saletan (@saletan) September 27, 2021

You'll be surprised to learn that the bill did not reduce police funding but did tie the same amount of funding to a few rules. https://t.co/y34bYLDLtF

— The Bearded Crank (@beardedcrank) September 25, 2021