The” Squat” has spent more than$ 1 million on private security while attempting to defund the police.

According to a Washington Free Beacon review of campaign filings, members of the progressive” Squad” have collectively spent$ 1 million since the start of their effort to defund the police.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a representative from D. Y .) Since May 2020, when the drive to defund the police began in response to George Floyd’s’s death, she and her five fellow” Squad” members have collectively spent$ 1.03 million on private security services. The politicians have defended their extravagant security taking as they work in Congress to deny their constituents police safety on the streets as crime spikes across the country.

You want me to death, don’t you? Do you want to hear that? Do you wish for my demise? Rep. Cori Bush( D., Missouri) said,” You know, because that could be the alternative. said in 2021 in response to a reporter’s’s question about her funding for personal protection. Bush had just said to the writer,” Defunding the law has to happened.”

Bush, who has spent$ 680, 000 on personal protection services since May 2020, spent more on private security than any other member of the” Squad.” Her father Cortney Merritts and her close buddy Nathaniel Davis III, a St. Louis religious guru who claims to be an expert in mental self-defense and you awaken crack with his hatred, are two of Bush’s’s rumored private security guards.

Since Floyd’s’s passing, Ocasio-Cortez has been the second-biggest spender among her coworkers in the” Squad ,” paying$ 199,000 for private security services. Ocasio-Cortez criticized New York City mayor Eric Adams( D. ) on Monday for raising rookie cop salaries from$ 42, 000 to$ 55, 000 — the officers’ first raise in seven years — despite enriching her personal protectors.

According to Ocasio-Cortez and Comedy Central network Jordan Klepper,” we are now at a point where most officers are paid more than teachers with master’s’s degrees serving these same children involved in these tragedies.” ” We are sending a statement about who and what we care about when we take all those sources and demand that every ministry— aside from the military one— be cut.”

Rep. Ilhan Omar( D., Minnesota ), who declared in June 2020 that the Minneapolis Police Department was” rotten to the root” and needed to be completely dismantled, came in third. Since May 2020, he has spent$ 77,000 on private protectors. Ayanna Pressley( D., Massachusetts )” Squad” members and Rashida Tlaib( D., Mich. ), respectively, spent$ 53 000 and$ 12 000 on private security services.

Rep. Jamaal Bowman( D., N.) was the last to enter. Y. ). In May 2021, the lone male member of the” Squad” spent just$ 7, 900 on private protectors. The Democratic senator asked for and was granted a special authorities detail to defend his home following the Capitol riot on January 6, 2021, according to the New York Post, so Bowman owes the city’s’s citizens for his meager private security budget.