Posted March 17, 2017 1:05 am by Comments

By Chris Eger

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and NYPD Commissioner James P. O’Neill on Thursday slammed the proposed White House budget which aims to slice federal funds to the nation’s largest metropolitan police force.
A chief bone of contention: the proposed cut of some $700 in grant money issued by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, of which the Big Apple gets one of the biggest bites– approximately $190 million according to de Blasio.
“If this is the opening salvo from President Trump, he is fixing to be met with huge resistance from all over the country,” said de Blasio, pledging to fight not only the cut in federal counterterror dollars but other measures that would affect the city as well. “This will make New Yorkers less safe, it will make it harder to get affordable housing, it will hurt our schools, it will hurt our hospitals, this budget proposal will undermine the lives of New Yorkers in various ways.”
De Blasio railed against the President’s budget on several points but took the Homeland Security grant trim at the forefront.
“We are the number one terror target and President Trump is proposing to take away $190 million dollars from our efforts to fight terrorism,”

Source: Guns.com

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