Tens of millions of dollars slated for violence prevention have been cut or are frozen as DOGE steamrolls the national security sector. “This is the government getting out of the terrorism business,” said one grant recipient.
Hannah Allam, the author of today’s story on funding cuts to terrorism prevention programs, is seeking tips on changes to the counterterrorism apparatus, court cases involving government surveillance or terrorism-related statutes, the dismissal of career national security personnel, the politicization of threat assessments and the proximity of extremist movements to federal power. Here’s how to reach her and other reporters from our newsroom.
On Feb. 20, nearly 7,000 probationary employees at the IRS began receiving an unsigned letter telling them that they had been fired for poor performance.
Trump administration lawyers insist that the IRS and other federal agencies have acted within their authority when they ordered waves of mass terminations since Trump took office. But according to previously unreported emails obtained by ProPublica, in the hours before the IRS sent out the unsigned termination letter, a fierce dispute played out at the agency’s highest levels, including a top agency lawyer threatening to go to the inspector general.
![Text: I’m compelled to tell you that this letter contains a false statement. No one ''t[ook] into account [any of the probationers'] performance'' (para. 4). Strike that clause or I'm going to TIGTA. Joseph A. Rillotta Counselor to the Commissioner Excerpt of an email written by IRS lawyer Joseph Rillotta Obtained by ProPublica](https://media.sailthru.com/composer/images/bazh/srgyp88a/qg3/6he/1bl/irs-tear.jpg "Text: I’m compelled to tell you that this letter contains a false statement. No one ''t[ook] into account [any of the probationers'] performance'' (para. 4). Strike that clause or I'm going to TIGTA. Joseph A. Rillotta Counselor to the Commissioner Excerpt of an email written by IRS lawyer Joseph Rillotta Obtained by ProPublica")
