Same old strawman arguments and misstatements of facts (aka lies).
The concentration of poor people in those cities is much higher than in southern Sunbelt cities where Republicans get elected as mayors and city council members.
The problems in these cities are more complicated and complex and nobody could simply legislate them away.
Poverty is something that doesn't just disappear because some suit wearing assholes cut social assistance programs and brush people off by saying "Get a job" as they're getting into their limo and heading off to the golf course.
Also, I find it amusing that a DOGE cheerleader like you would be lamenting the *supposed* defunding of any government agency, even though in this case, what you're claiming never even happened.
Funding for US police departments is up across the board.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/defunding-claims-police-funding-increased-us-cities/story?id=91511971
Raising taxes on business to drive them out? What do you think your orange idiot hero's tariffs are going to do?
Come back and talk some more about it someday when you're not so full of shit.