President Joe Biden campaigned for president on a platform of moderation and civility. Both went out the door within 48 hours of inauguration when the new president ushered in an era of divisive far-left social policy handed down by executive order. The president opened last fall’s midterm cycle with a speech from hell deriding political opponents as existential threats to democracy itself.
Biden’s latest nominees facing Senate confirmation showcase the administration’s pledge to appease the Democrats’ far-left base. On Tuesday, the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee considered a slate of nominations for the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). One nominee in particular, Solomon Jeffrey Greene, who was appointed assistant secretary, has a long history of calls for defunding the police. As assistant secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Greene would be responsible for policy surrounding the security of public housing.
“Here’s another idea,” Greene wrote in a since-deleted tweet three years ago, “imagine if the money used to pay the salaries of police officers who endlessly patrol public housing buildings and harass residents can be used to fund plans that residents design to keep themselves safe.’ No More Money for the Police.”
Greene wrote the Founders for Justice and the Neighborhood Funders group “had it right all along.” Both groups called for police divestment.
As communities picked up the pieces from weeks of the most destructive outbreak of civil unrest in recent American history, Greene once again derided the police.
“Too many families
