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Remarks by President Biden After Marine One Arrival

Date: July 21, 2021
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Executive Branch Criminal Justice

THE PRESIDENT: We answered enough questions today. The only reason I'm stopping: I feel badly you're here this hour of the night.

Q Mr. President, can you clarify what you said about no -- that there's no -- no one in the Democratic Party is anti-police?

THE PRESIDENT: I didn't say that.

Q I know that you said you don't want to defund the police --

THE PRESIDENT: I said that that -- that is not the Democratic Party's position.

Q Okay.

THE PRESIDENT: I'm the Democratic Party; I am President. So is the Speaker of the House and so is the --- the Majority Leader. We are not the defunding the police.

Q Okay. And are there people who -- in the Democratic Party, who want to defund the police?

THE PRESIDENT: Are there people in the Republican Party who think we're sucking the blood out of kids?

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