Rep. Biggs Introduces Bills to Defund Manhattan DA Office

Republican Rep. Andy Biggs from Arizona has proposed two bills that would defund the Manhattan District Attorney’s (DA) Office following the indictment of former President Donald Trump. Trump was charged in April with 34 counts of falsifying business records, but many have criticized the case as being “weak.” There are suggestions that the move has political motives behind it.

Biggs, who is the House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Crime and Federal Government Surveillance, has made it clear that he will not allow District Attorney Alvin Bragg to misuse federal funds intended for the prosecution of a former U.S. President, while ignoring the increase in crime in New York City. He accuses Bragg of planning to leverage the legal system to target conservatives and is seeking to protect them.

The first bill Biggs proposed, the Accountability for Lawless Violence In Our Neighborhoods Act or ALVIN Act, would stop federal funds from being given to the Manhattan District Attorney’s office and require it to return those granted after Jan. 1, 2022. The second bill, the No Federal Funds for Political Prosecutions Act, would stop state or local law enforcement agencies from using forfeiture assets to investigate or charge the president, vice president, or presidential candidate for a criminal case.

Biggs added that it is worrying to see the Manhattan DA’s office use federal resources and suggests that his bills will help restore impartiality to the US judiciary system.