Imagine the level of confidence you have to have to claim the Republicans are the ones defunding the police. They know their constituents are stupid and they know they can continue getting away with it, so they just do it. Even for something that literally happened a couple months prior.
I also remember the idiots on here claiming they weren't defunding the police, just cutting the unnecessary pork and all the "bad apples." Hell, some of them are still claiming that, since they're too stupid to even understand what's actually going on.