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Trump seeks to end cashless bail. What is it and which states might be affected?

Poynter · Loreben Tuquero · last updated

President Donald Trump’s latest move in his crime crackdown is an executive order to end cashless bail, and he threatened to withhold federal funding from states that don’t end those policies.

The Aug. 25 executive order says that when people are released without posting bail, they are “permitted — even encouraged — to further endanger law-abiding, hard-working Americans because they know our laws will not be enforced.”

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