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struggle4progress

(118,292 posts)
Wed Nov 1, 2017, 08:19 PM Nov 2017

Administration sought counterterror cuts

... The Trump administration has proposed sharp cuts to programs that seek to prevent domestic terrorism and prepare localities to respond ...

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 ...

Two grant programs -- Countering Violent Extremism and Complex Coordinated Terrorist Attacks -- would be eliminated entirely from the Federal Emergency Management Agency's budget under Trump's plan, to the tune of nearly $49 million. The budget also would cut two full-time employees managing the program.

Congress has also declined to reallocate money for the Countering Violent Extremism ...

http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/01/politics/countering-domestic-terror-cuts/index.html

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Administration sought counterterror cuts (Original Post) struggle4progress Nov 2017 OP
Yes, but they compensate Turbineguy Nov 2017 #1
2018? Corgigal Nov 2017 #2

Turbineguy

(37,338 posts)
1. Yes, but they compensate
Wed Nov 1, 2017, 08:27 PM
Nov 2017

by increasing the Bullshit budget.

With trump, what actually happens, doesn't matter. It's what his doltish base believes that's important.

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