Trump administration has sought domestic counterterror cuts
Source: CNN
By Tal Kopan, CNN
Updated 5:15 PM ET, Wed November 1, 2017
Schumer to Trump: Stop dividing, politicizing
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New York itself stands to lose millions in federal funds
DHS disputed the notion that the administration was retreating from fighting terrorism
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The Trump administration has proposed sharp cuts to programs that seek to prevent domestic terrorism and prepare localities to respond -- a point made by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, a Democrat from New York, in response to Trump criticizing him on Wednesday morning, in a tweet linking the attack to an immigration policy Trump ascribed to Schumer.
"President Trump, instead of politicizing and dividing America, which he always seems to do at times of national tragedy, should be focusing on the real solution - anti-terrorism funding - which he proposed cutting in his most recent budget," Schumer said in a statement. "I'm calling on the President to immediately rescind his proposed cuts to this vital anti-terrorism funding."
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Trump's 2018 budget proposal included steep cuts to a number of grant programs run by the Department of Homeland Security that go toward terrorism and violent extremism preparedness and prevention. All told, more than $300 million would be cut from such programs.
New York itself would stand to lose millions in federal funds. On Tuesday, a 29-year-old Uzbek national killed eight people and injured more than a dozen more when he drove a rented truck onto a bike and pedestrian path in Manhattan, pledging his support to ISIS in a note found at the scene.
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.........A program run by the Transportation Security Administration, called the Visible Intermodal Prevention and Response program, would also be drastically cut. Such teams support security efforts on all modes of transportation, and also deploy for security of major events like sports' championship games and Inauguration. Those would be cut from 31 teams to eight, totaling $43 million.
New York City and the state, for example, could millions of dollars under the grant cuts....................
Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/01/politics/countering-domestic-terror-cuts/index.html
Trump is nothing but a blustering hypocrite!
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when he spoke with the Dem congressman whose district was where the attack yesterday occurred. Info like this needs to get out more! But since it isn't "fake" 33% of the country won't ever learn about it since Fux Ruse isn't an apple like CNN but is BANANAS!
want their tax cuts and don't care if the peasantry gets killed by terrorists.
In fact, by exploiting the subset of terrorist attacks committed by anyone besides white males, the reich can simultaneously keep the populace living in fear and gin up hatred of the "other". Very convenient.
