New York Dems Make Shocking Terror Claim About Trump's Budget Cut Proposal

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

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

"Here is nan bottommost line: nan Trump budget, if enacted, would time off 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 nan 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 based on that "Draconian cuts" to homeland information grants "would each but dismantle nan FDNY’s capacity for emergency guidance and would trim nan NYPD’s post-9/11 counterterrorism servants of nan state to a ammunition of its erstwhile self."

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

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

The connection would trim $163 cardinal successful non-defense discretionary authorities spending – meaning nan 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' study of nan fund said nan State Homeland Security Grant programme (SHSGP) would beryllium trim from $468 cardinal to $351 million, and nan Urban Areas Security Initiative (UASI) would beryllium trim from $553.5 cardinal to $415.5 cardinal – 2 programs highlighted by nan New Yorkers.

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

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

"The Trump fund is an enactment of nationalist self-sabotage," they said. "In conscionable nan first half of 2025, we person seen 7 violent plots—roughly 1 per month. 24 years pursuing 9/11 panic attacks, nan threat 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 nan 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 first scheme that undergoes changes arsenic lawmakers discuss what's feasible.

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

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

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

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

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

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

"House Republicans are tasked pinch drafting these bills and Democrats guidelines fresh to activity successful a bipartisan manner, but we will not support 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 return a petition for remark connected nan letter.