Fighting domestic violent extremism is no longer a FEMA priority
According to the unpublished bulletin, the FEMA budget may not necessarily be returned from the United States. Instead, current and future grant recipients must classify the activities that are currently classified as dealing with domestic violent extremism and include projects in the new national priority areas expressed by FEMA. These new priorities, announced last week, include protecting soft targets such as election sites, cyber security, “election security (including confirmation that workers are US citizen polls”) and “protecting and implementing the border crisis”.
Bulletin provides some examples of activities that can be re -used to eliminate elements related to internal extremism, such as “converting a tablecloth exercise that had previously focused on Dve threats into cases where there are wider risks, including severe weather, active shooters or cybercrime.” Bulletin says activities that cannot be “completely reused”, “cut off”.
A separate FEMA document obtained by a wire shows that ending the budget for internal violent extremist work at FEMA appeared at Omb’s meetings. The document refers to a May 16 justification meeting with the OBB and shows a wide range of follow -up questions that FEMA staff worked in late July.
“How to make sure that money is no longer spent on domestic violence [sic] Extremism, “a shotgun asks.” Legally, how do we do this? “
The description provided by FEMA employees has suggested that open the prize packages will be planned for a different one to eliminate the minimum cost to combat domestic violent extremism and “informing recipients that any project previously approved to counter domestic violent extremism should be planned for a different. [national priority area]. “The document acknowledges that” the “strategy has a legal risk because it is changing the conditions of an open award.” The FEMA employees were working on an information bulletin to “execute”.
The note reads: “We will update the omb when this was done.”
In recent years, violent internal extremism attacks have become increasingly focused on electricity networks and other infrastructure. The Ministry of Energy only launched physical and cyber attacks in 2023, only 96 years in 2020. In February, the founder of a neo -Nazi group was convicted of conspiracy to attack electric networks in “Romur” [his] Violent extremist or ethnic beliefs, “according to the Ministry of Justice, in July, the leader of the extremist anti -state anti -state group in Patrol told Wire that attacking a meteorological radar system is part of a campaign that was mistakenly thought of.”
However, over the past six months, the government’s work to track, analyze, understand and combat internal violent extremism has declined significantly. The Center for Prevention and Partnership Programs, a program designed in DHS to prevent internal violent extremism in the United States, has lost 20 % of its employees since the beginning of the year. It is currently led by a former 22 -year -old trainee from the Heritage Foundation, a right -wing organization authored by the 2025 project, a document used as a policy plan by the Trump administration for most of this year. In July, DHS announced that the “useless, inaccurate” grants, run by the Center for Prevention and Partnerships, would end the budget for “LBGTQ+ advertising” and “anti -extremism initiatives”.
