(The Center Square) – Federal funding, and the ability to withhold it, is being used as an incentive within two proposals tied to violent crime and the judicial system.

Each was introduced last week in the U.S. Senate and on Monday came forward in the House of Representatives. District of Columbia Cash Bail Reform Act and Keep Violent Criminals Off Our Streets Act were each filed by Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., with cosponsorship from a North Carolina congressman whose district is adjacent to where a woman was murdered Aug. 22 in Charlotte.

The cashless bail measure would not only end it in Washington but also across the nation through the strip of federal funding where policies and officials result in violent criminals getting back on the streets, Stefanik says. She said a suspect

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