August 8 – Trump’s administration plans to reduce security funding for Washington, DC, according to the grant announcement, although President Donald Trump claims that the crime in the US capital is “completely out of control”. The Federal Emergency Management Agency reported in the announcement published last week that DC and the surrounding areas would receive $ 20 million less from its urban security fund this year, reducing financing to $ 25.2 million and $ 44%year -on -year. The Ministry of Internal Security, which oversees Fema, said on Friday that it reduces funds per DC and other cities to match the “current threat of the landscape”. The agency “observed a shift from extensive coordinated attacks such as 9/11 to simpler, small attacks, which increases the vulnerability of soft targets and crowded areas in urban areas,” he said.
FEMA also reduced the money for Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, Jersey City and San Francisco, but the reduction of DC was the largest for any urban area that received funds from the last fiscal year.
The mayor’s office Muriel Bowser did not respond immediately to E -mail with Reuters asking for commentary to reduce financing.
Federal security financing includes needs in the area of the National City, an area that includes DC and the surrounding cities in Maryland and Virginia. In the past, regional officials have used money to pay hazmat training, hiring officers and replacing the fiber in an emergency communication network, according to a report from the 2016 DC Agencies for Management. FEMA has $ 553.5 million to spend to help cities across the US on the coast of their security. Reuters could not immediately verify how much of the total budget on the security of the National City came from this program. On Thursday, Trump ordered the federal police to increase its presence in the capital, after Edward Coristine’s employees were attacked in DC, it was the last presidential step to take over the city’s leadership.
According to the December report of the US Office for DC, a violent crime in DC decreased by 35% between 2023 and 2024
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