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struggle4progress

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Thu Apr 24, 2025, 05:06 PM Apr 2025

US cancels hundreds of grants for police, crime victims

By Peter Eisler and Sarah N. Lynch
April 23, 20257:30 PM EDT Updated a day ago

WASHINGTON, April 23 (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department has canceled hundreds of ongoing grants that funded everything from mental healthcare for police officers to support programs for victims of crime and sexual assault, according to internal records and four people familiar with the matter.

At least 365 grants from the Office of Justice Programs, the department's largest grant-making arm, were terminated late Tuesday, said two of the people, who were granted anonymity to discuss details that have not been made public ...

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-justice-department-cancels-hundreds-grants-police-crime-victims-2025-04-23/

Mugged by a millionaire! Slashed by a rich man's tax cutter

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US cancels hundreds of grants for police, crime victims (Original Post) struggle4progress Apr 2025 OP
Backfire............. Lovie777 Apr 2025 #1
Back the Blue! progressoid Apr 2025 #2
Thin Blue Line! Blue Lives Matter! maxsolomon Apr 2025 #3
I had a "discussion" with a MAGA earlier this year about all that bullshit. progressoid Apr 2025 #4

progressoid

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4. I had a "discussion" with a MAGA earlier this year about all that bullshit.
Thu Apr 24, 2025, 06:52 PM
Apr 2025

Nothing I said made any difference. I showed her all the times our local Repub Rep voted against "The Blue." Or how trump pardoned the people who attacked police officers (Jan 6th). Etc. None of it made it through in her brainwashed skull. I don't know why I bothered.

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