Senate Democratic leader Schumer says he’ll vote with GOP on overturning controversial DC crime bill
Fox News senior congressional correspondent Chad Pergram reports on the fallout from President Biden's decision not to veto a Republican resolution to block the city's crime agenda.
The original D.C. legislation would have reduced maximum penalties for certain crimes, like burglaries, robberies and carjackings, along with scrapping some mandatory minimum sentences. It faced backlash from conservatives and some liberals; Democrat Mayor Muriel Bowser vetoed it this past January, but the City Council overrode her veto.
Despite Democrat control of the Senate, the criminal code seems likely to be rejected. One Democrat, Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia, already has said he will vote to overturn the law. Another, John Fetterman of Pennsylvania, is in the hospital to receive treatment for clinical depression. In vetoing the revised criminal code, Bowser said she opposed provisions such as a reduction in the maximum penalties for burglary, carjacking, robbery and other offenses."Anytime there's a policy that reduces penalties, I think it sends the wrong message," she said in January.
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