Violent crime was already trending down from a covid-era spike when President Donald Trump presented a picture of unbridled crime in America on the campaign trail in 2024. Now his administration has eliminated about $500 million in grants to organizations that buttress public safety, including many working to prevent gun violence.
NEW: Violent crime was already trending down when Trump campaigned on addressing unbridled crime in America. Now his administration has cut about $500 million for crime prevention. My latest for @cnn.com and @kffhealthnews.org www.cnn.com/2025/06/03/h ...
-- Bram Sable-Smith (@realbrambo.bsky.social) June 3, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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Dotard Trumpf wants America to reach 50,000 gun-related deaths per annum. We are at about 47,000 now (or one KIA every eleven minutes), like a warzone but without the IDF or the Taliban: www.pewresearch.org
Tangentially related ...
Another agency gutted?
One-third of top U.S. cyber force has left since Trump took office
www.axios.com
... Roughly 1,000 people have already left the nation's top cybersecurity agency during the second Trump administration, a former government official tells Axios " cutting the agency's total workforce by nearly a third.
Why it matters: The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency is also facing a potential 17% budget cut under the president's proposed budget -- raising fears that power grids, water utilities, and election systems could be left without a well-equipped federal partner as cyber threats mount.
The big picture: Trump officials are actively pursuing plans to increase offensive cyber operations against adversarial nations like China " and experts warn those nations are bound to respond in-kind to those strikes.
- - - But security experts fear that with a smaller cyber defense agency, the country won't have the resources needed to protect the homeland. ...
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