"This commutation will enable Mr. Peltier to spend his remaining days in home confinement but will not pardon him for his underlying crimes," Biden wrote in a statement announcing the move. ????? ???????  

Peltier, a prominent Native American activist before his arrest, has always proclaimed his innocence in the crime. ????????????

Peltier, 80, has spent nearly 50 years in prison after being convicted of the murder of two FBI agents on South Dakota's Pine Ridge Reservation in 1975. He also escaped from federal prison in 1979 while serving his sentence for the two murders and had five years tacked onto his sentence. ?????  

President Joe Biden has sparked outrage after commuting the sentence of Leonard Peltier in a last-minute move before leaving office Monday. ????? ???????  

President-elect Donald Trump had tapped Ramaswamy and Tech billionaire Elon Musk to lead the newly created DOGE, with the goal of slashing back government spending. ????????????