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Its a clash of the lefty titans. Firebrand Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Mayor Bill de Blasio are engaged in another public spat this time after Hizzoner called the lawmaker just wrong when she accused him of fudging his$1 billion cut to the NYPD budget. During an interview on CNNs New Day on Wednesday morning, de Blasio was asked about a statement from the congresswoman in which she said he was using budget tricks and funny math to make it look like he had defunded the citys police department. Well, shes just wrong, he said. The facts are, we took money from the NYPD, put it into youth programs. We are reducing the size of the NYPD but still in a way that can keep us safe. Ocasio-Cortezresponded Wednesday afternoon to Hizzoners remarkswith a tweetof a New York Times report that accused Big Apple officials of achieving the cuts with a budgetary sleight of hand: Moving school safety officers under the Department of Education. The sweeping reduction to theNYPDs $6 billion budget, passed by the City Council on Tuesday evening, was made possible in part by transferring the departments school safety cops to other city agencies saving $349. 5 million. JUDGE JEANINE RIPS BOZO DE BLASIO OVER BUDGET CUTSMeanwhile, 1,163 cops were trimmed from the department, while overtime will be reduced by $352 million. Ocasio-Cortez, a Democratic socialist, said the budget cuts, which she described as a disingenuous illusion, didnt go far enough in a statementreleased Tuesday. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APPThis is not a victory. The fight to defund policing continues, she said. Defunding police means defunding police. It does not mean budget tricks or funny math. It does not mean moving school police officers from the NYPD budget to the Department of Educations budget so the exact same police remain in schools. The two progressives last traded
