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FEMA just announced it’ll withhold 20% of terrorism-preparedness grants from states that don’t comply with Trump’s election “security” demands: switching entirely to hand-marked paper ballots, running citizenship checks, and auditing at least 5% of ballots post-election. Homeland Security called election integrity a “top priority” and said recipients “should face accountability.”
Let’s be clear about what this actually is. These demands aren’t about security — they’re lifted straight from right-wing conspiracy theories about voting machines and noncitizens voting, theories that have never held up in court or in reality. David Becker of the Center for Election Innovation and Research put it plainly: these changes wouldn’t improve election security, they’d actively harm it.
The states hit hardest — California, New York, Texas — are the ones with the biggest populations and, not coincidentally, the biggest counterterrorism needs. New York Gov. Kathy Hochul didn’t hold back, accusing the administration of risking New Yorkers’ safety to chase a political agenda.
This isn’t Trump’s first attempt with this exact move. He already tried withholding $36 million in counterterrorism funds from NYC’s transit system over its sanctuary city policy — a federal judge made him pay up, calling it “arbitrary, capricious, and a blatant violation of the law.” His broader push to federalize elections via executive order already got blocked in court too, because — fun fact — the Constitution puts states in charge of elections, not the president.
An America president, actively trying to open up parts of his own country to terrorist attacks is an act of treason.
Donald Trump once called his political opponents “the enemy within.” Another classic case of projection.
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