As Charlottesville, Va., struggles to recover from last weekend’s deadly violence and authorities warn of increased threats from domestic extremists, the Justice Department is quietly shutting down a program that trains officers on combating terrorism.

The State and Local Anti-Terrorism Training program, which has served more than 142,000 law enforcement officers in every state in the country, has run out of funding. Its last day is Sept. 30.

“It makes absolutely no sense,” said Mike Sena, president of the National Fusion Center Association, which represents a network of 79 centers across the country designed to help law enforcement agencies collect and share terrorism-related information.

On Monday, Attorney General Jeff Sessions called the incident “an unequivocally unacceptable and evil attack” and said it met the definition of domestic terrorism. His comments raise even more questions, some law enforcement experts say, as to why the government would eliminate a program whose mission was to help thwart such attacks. “This is one of the best training programs in the country, and it’s provided free to law enforcement,” said Bob Paudert, a former police chief of West Memphis, Ark., whose son and another officer were gunned down by anti-government sovereign citizens during a traffic stop in 2010. “You can’t get a straight answer. And I have even sent word to the Trump administration. It’s just ridiculous.”