An NRA-ILA alert last month highlighted the ways in which President Donald Trump has used his office to safeguard our rights protected under the Second Amendment. Another important development has just come to our attention, on the allocation of federal grant funds.
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The Trump administration has already cut millions in grants for certain “gun violence prevention programs,” the majority of which had been set up under the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act (BSCA), the gun control law passed under Joe Biden. The grants were part of the Community-Based Violence Intervention and Prevention Initiative (CVIPI), administered through the Justice Department’s Bureau of Justice Assistance, Office of Justice Programs (OJP) and funded “through dedicated resources from the [BSCA].” A 2024 White House fact sheet refers to “$1.5 billion in mandatory funding to support Community Violence Intervention (CVI) programs at DOJ over the next 10 years.”
DOJ officials explained that the cuts concerned programs “that do not align with the administration’s priorities,” with new funding priorities focusing on “law enforcement operations, combating violent crime, protecting American children, supporting American victims of trafficking and sexual assault, and promoting coordination of law enforcement efforts at all levels of government.”
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