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Cutting Domestic Extremism Prevention in the Second Trump Administration

This page is part of a resource collection on far right extremism.

Image: from The 22-Year-Old Trump’s Team Picked to Lead Terrorism Prevention.

News: 2025

March 20.   Hannah Allam: Killing Grants That Have Saved Lives: Trump’s Cuts Signal End to Government Work on Terrorism Prevention.

March 25.   Ellie Silverman: Trump administration cuts national database tracking domestic terrorism.

May 16.   Jordan Green: Shock move earns Trump accusations of sheltering white supremacism.

May 29.   Hannah Allam: “The Federal Government Is Gone”: Under Trump, the Fight Against Extremist Violence Is Left Up to the States.

June 4.   Hannah Allam: The Intern in Charge”: Meet the 22-Year-Old Trump’s Team Picked to Lead Terrorism Prevention: One year out of college and with no apparent national security expertise, Thomas Fugate is the Department of Homeland Security official tasked with overseeing the government’s main hub for combating violent extremism.

July 11.   Jordan Green: ‘Undermines our defense’: State anti-extremism office shuts amid Trump layoffs.

August 6.   Molly Taft: Combating Domestic Violent Extremism Is No Longer a FEMA Priority:Documents obtained by WIRED show FEMA plans to direct states and tribes to halt activities intended to combat domestic violent extremism so as to align with “current administration priorities.”

Cutting Resources during the First Trump Administration

Nicole Einbinder: The Trump administration has actually cut government resources to fight white supremacy and domestic terrorism.

Ron Nixon and Eileen Sullivan: Revocation of Grants to Help Fight Hate Under New Scrutiny After Charlottesville.