New York Dems make shocking terror claim about Trump's budget cut proposal

A radical of House Democrats from New York are claiming President Donald Trump's yearly authorities backing proposal, if enacted, could permission large cities susceptible to monolithic panic attacks.

"We are penning to explicit the gravest concerns astir the existential menace that the Trump Administration’s projected fund poses to the homeland information of New York City," the Democrats wrote.

"Here is the bottommost line: the Trump budget, if enacted, would permission America’s largest metropolis woefully unprepared to forestall and respond to a 2nd 9/11."

The bold caller accusation comes arsenic left-wing lawmakers proceed to knock Republicans' efforts astatine slashing national spending. The nationalist debt, meanwhile, is climbing toward $37 trillion.

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Reps. Ritchie Torres, left, and Dan Goldman, right, were 2 of the New York Democrats who criticized President Trump's fund proposal. (Getty Images)

The missive was signed by New York City Democratic Reps. Ritchie Torres, Yvette Clarke, Gregory Meeks, Dan Goldman and Jerry Nadler.

They argued that "Draconian cuts" to homeland information grants "would each but dismantle the FDNY’s capableness for exigency absorption and would trim the NYPD’s post-9/11 counterterrorism apparatus to a ammunition of its erstwhile self."

The missive is addressed to the apical Republican and Democrat connected the House Appropriations Committee, which has already begun enactment connected the adjacent fiscal year's national fund successful clip for the Sept. 30 deadline.

The White House has released a "skinny" fund connection for fiscal twelvemonth (FY) 2026, which, if passed, would marque bully connected Republicans' committedness to slash authorities spending that they accidental has gotten retired of control.

The connection would chopped $163 cardinal successful non-defense discretionary authorities spending – meaning the national backing that Congress controls each year, alternatively than mandatory funding, which is mostly comprised of authorities information nett programs that are amended done a abstracted process called fund reconciliation.

The nonprofit International Association of Fire Chiefs' investigation of the fund said the State Homeland Security Grant programme (SHSGP) would beryllium chopped from $468 cardinal to $351 million, and the Urban Areas Security Initiative (UASI) would beryllium chopped from $553.5 cardinal to $415.5 cardinal – 2 programs highlighted by the New Yorkers.

The lawmakers' missive said New York City could spot $45 cardinal successful homeland information grants chopped nether Trump's budget.

Rep. Jerrold Nadler besides signed onto the letter. (AP Images)

"The Trump fund is an enactment of nationalist self-sabotage," they said. "In conscionable the archetypal fractional of 2025, we person seen 7 violent plots—roughly 1 per month. 24 years pursuing 9/11 panic attacks, the menace of coercion remains arsenic existent arsenic it has ever been."

The Democrats noted that New York's constabulary and occurrence departments "routinely supply reinforcements and method assistance to jurisdictions crossed the United States."

"The homeland information grants for NYC enables a nationalist web of communal assistance betwixt and among states," they argued.

The White House FY26 fund connection is traditionally conscionable an archetypal program that undergoes changes arsenic lawmakers negociate what's feasible.

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With a Republican trifecta successful Washington, however, Republicans volition apt beryllium nether added unit to present connected a imaginativeness arsenic adjacent to Trump's arsenic possible.

Separately, GOP lawmakers are besides moving connected the sweeping taxation and migration authorities that Trump dubbed his "big, beauteous bill," with a extremity of getting that measure to Trump's table by Fourth of July.

When reached for remark connected the letter, the White House referred Fox News Digital to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

A DHS spokesperson said, "Claims that DHS is reducing absorption connected coercion prevention are unequivocally false."

"Allegations of weakening these programs are baseless. DHS is enhancing quality and infrastructure extortion to support cities secure. We stay afloat dedicated to preventing different 9/11 with robust, targeted investments," the DHS spokesperson said.

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But Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn., the apical Democrat connected the House Appropriations Committee, told Fox News Digital, "We bash not adjacent person President Trump’s afloat 2026 fund petition yet, but from what we person seen, the cuts helium is proposing crossed the national authorities endanger our nationalist security."

"House Republicans are tasked with drafting these bills and Democrats basal acceptable to enactment successful a bipartisan manner, but we volition not enactment last 2026 backing bills that neglect to support our communities safe," DeLauro said.

A spokesperson for House Appropriations Committee Chairman Tom Cole, R-Okla., did not instrumentality a petition for remark connected the letter.