Summary
Donald Trump’s administration cut major counter-terrorism research programs across agencies, sparking warnings from experts that the move will weaken U.S. defenses against far-right violence.
Cuts include $30m for academic studies, DHS funding for the University of Maryland’s terrorism and hate crime database, and the DOJ’s radicalization research.
Experts say this erases years of progress, undermines Trump’s pledges to fight antisemitism, and shifts focus away from the primary domestic threat: far-right extremism.
The FBI has also redirected resources toward gangs and leftist groups, raising safety concerns among researchers.
Pretty sure that’s the point
Yeah, that was already ahown last time with the proudboys and all the groups in J6… And it’s why Musk was doing Nazi signalling.
Those groups and sub groups will eventually be his brown shirts or red guard.
He already has his res guard. It’s called ICE. Or did you not notice all the stories of american citizens getting blackbagged in broad daylight?
That’s because Donald Trump is a far right extremist.
Exactly the point
“It’s not a bug, it’s a feature”
“Trump’s counter-terror cuts will harm fight against Trump and his allies”
This will not end badly at allllll.
That’s been on the unhinged far right to-do list ever since GWB’s admin found that the biggest threat to America is right wing extremism.
The incoming Obama admin had it buried because of all the POUTRAGE from the teabagger, oops, now I guess they are rebranded as magoff, wing of the party.
But the resentful babies never forgot.
