Primary challenger to ‘Squad’ member Cori Bush blasts her call to defund the police, private security spending

EXCLUSIVE – The Democratic primary challenger to far-left “Squad” member Rep. Cori Bush, D-Mo., is calling her out over her defund the police position, as well as the massive amount of money she has spent on private security despite those calls, ahead of the Tuesday election.

In an exclusive interview with Fox News Digital, Democratic Missouri state Sen. Steve Roberts argued voters in the state’s 1st Congressional District were feeling “buyer’s remorse” for electing Bush and vowed to work across the aisle to support policies that citizens in the district were actually concerned about, including crime.

“[Bush] continues to say that we need to defund the police department. I will tell you, at every community meeting, town hall meeting, meetings with our business leaders, they say the number one issue facing Saint Louis City and County is crime. And no one believes defunding the police is the right solution to that problem,” Roberts said.  

“If anything, we need better police accountability, but more funding for better training. I mean, we’re down over 100 officers that we need in the Saint Louis City Department alone. And to continue this line of defunding the police just causes further division without any real solution to our crime issues in this region,” he added.

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Roberts went on to criticize the “hypocrisy” of Bush spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on her own private security while still calling to defund the police, as well as voting against measures that would protect the Supreme Court and their families.

“You’ve got Congresswoman Bush who spent nearly now half of one million dollars on her own…