Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) said he believes months-long negotiations on police reform broke down this week because Democratic lawmakers called for slashing funding to law enforcement.
“We said simply this. ‘I’m not going to participate in reducing funding for the police after we saw a major city after major city defund the police,’” the Republican senator told CBS’s Face the Nation. “Many provisions in this bill [Democrats] wanted me to agree to limited or reduced funding for the police.”
