Trump administration axes $18,000,000 counterterror program that was used against American dissidents
Jun 13, 2025 3:00 pm
By Robert Spencer
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The Biden regime tried to establish the abortive Disinformation Governance Board, which would have policed speech that dissented from the leftist establishment’s perspective. The regime also sicced the FBI on angry parents protesting at school board meetings, worked with Twitter (X) and other social media giants to silence and deplatform people with opposing views, and even sent spies into Catholic churches to keep tabs on pro-lifers.
Was the Center for Prevention Programs and Partnerships part of all that? Why, yes. It was a presenter at a seminar at which Fox News and PragerU, among others, were identified as sources of terrorist radicalization. So the administration is right: it should be shut down.
“Trump team ends $18m terrorism prevention program designed to ID lone wolves before they attack,” by Ariana Baio, Independent, June 11, 2025:
The Trump administration is axing a division of the Department of Homeland Security designed to prevent domestic terrorism attacks committed by individual perpetrators and train officials to negate future attacks, worrying prevention advocates.
The Center for Prevention Programs and Partnerships (CP3) was an arm of DHS that provided federal resources to local and state officials to thwart lone wolf attacks, an increasingly common type of terrorism.
In those instances, attacks are carried out by an individual not part of an organized group. Examples include the recent Boulder, Colorado attack in which a man threw incendiary devices at a group of Israeli hostage advocates as well as the murder of two young Isreali Embassy staffers outside the Captiol Jewish Museum.
CP3 aimed to reduce the instances of those attacks by understanding domestic violence trends, such as those tracked by the Terrorism and Targeted Violence database (TV2), and providing training through programs such as the Targeting Violence and Terrorism Prevention grant.
But President Donald Trump’s budget said DHS could re-allocate roughly $18 million by axing the center and its grants, which the administration claims “were weaponized to target Americans exercising their First Amendment rights.”… |
