According to the unpublished newsletter, FEMA funds may not necessarily be removed from the states. Instead, current and future subsidy recipients need to recover activities that are currently classified as handling domestic violent extremisms, fitting projects to new national priority areas outlined by FEMA. These new priorities that were announced last weekInclude the protection of soft goals such as election sites, cybersecurity, election security (“including verifying that survey workers are US citizens”), and “supporting a border crisis response and enforcement.”
The Bulletin lists some examples of activities that can still be funded if they are reissued to remove elements related to domestic violent extremisms, including “transforming table exercise, which has previously focused on DVE threats in one that deals with a wider range of hazards, including severe weather, active guns, or cyber attacks.” Activities that cannot be “thoroughly repulsed”, the bulletin, must be “stopped.”
A separate female document acquired by Wired shows that ending the financial streams for domestic violent extremism in FEMA came in meetings with OMB. This document references information from May 16 with an OMB and lists a range of following questions that FEMA staff worked to handle as late as in mid-July.
“As we assure it no longer spending money for domestic violence [sic] Extremism, “One bullet point asks.” Legally, how do we do that? ”
The explanation given by FEMA personnel suggested modifying open prizes to eliminate the minimum spending requirement to combat domestic violent extremisms and “notify recipients that any project previously approved to counteract domestic violent extremism be reprogrammed for different [national priority area]. “The document acknowledges that the” strategy carries some legal risk, as it changes the terms of an open prize. “
“We will update OMB when this is realized,” The Self declares.
Domestic violent extremist attacks in recent years have become more and more focused on powerful grids and other infrastructure. The Department of Energy Recorded 185 physical and cyber attacks against powerful grids in 2023 alone, up from only 96 in 2020. In February, the founder of a New Nazi group was convicted of plot to Attack electric gates in “strengthening of [his] Racially or ethnically motivated violent extremist beliefs, “according to the Justice Department. In July, the head of anti -government extremist veterans on patrol Said Wired An attack on a Vetera Radar system was part of a campaign of that group, which mistakenly assumed that the government used a weather modification to create a “weather weapon” that caused the floods of this summer in Texas.
Still, over the past six months, government work intended to track, analyze, understand and fight domestic violent extremism has faced serious cuts. The Center for Prevention Programs and Partnerships, a program inhabited within DHS designed to prevent domestic violent extremism in the United States, has lost 20 percent from its staff since the beginning of the year. It’s currently being led By 22-year-old former intern of The Heritage Foundation, a right-wing organization that has authored project 2025, the document used as a policy plan of the Trump administration for much of this year. In July, DHS announced It would hack “wasted, misdirected” subsidies administered by the Center for Prevention Programs and Partnerships, ending funding for “LBGTQ+ propaganda” and “BIASED Anti-extremist initiatives.”
