Trump Restores $187M to New York Homeland Funding

President Trump announced he reversed planned cuts to New York City and state homeland security and counterterrorism funding, saying on Truth Social that $187 million would be restored. FEMA and DHS said they would provide access to $136 million to bring state homeland security funding to $187 million after the president was briefed and intervened. The reductions — initially communicated by DHS and FEMA and described by New York officials as as much as an 86% cut to programs including UASI, SHSP and Operation Stonegarden — had threatened NYPD, FDNY, bomb squads, K-9 units and other local emergency programs. New York officials and bipartisan lawmakers had sued; a federal judge temporarily blocked related transit-security funding cuts, but billions in federal infrastructure and energy grants for New York and other Democratic-led states (including roughly $18 billion in NYC transportation projects and nearly $8 billion in energy grants across 16 states) remain paused. Critics say the moves amounted to politically motivated retribution that would harm jobs, safety and infrastructure, while the administration says reviews were affected by the government shutdown and furloughs.