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Trump and the government spent $18 million last year uprooting marijuana plants.
That's the same amount he cut from an Obama-era program aimed at preventing, you guessed it, domestic extremism. bit.ly/2YOaDIJ
That's the same amount he cut from an Obama-era program aimed at preventing, you guessed it, domestic extremism. bit.ly/2YOaDIJ
Despite domestic extremists killing more Americans and launching more attacks than foreign terrorists in recent years, Trump’s Department of Homeland Security has cut funding and staff devoted to countering the threat. bit.ly/2YOaDIJ
Trump hasn’t shown the same rigor for cuts to other DHS or DOJ programs, however. bit.ly/2YOaDIJ
Trump’s DOJ spent $21 million on furniture, last September alone.
The DHS spent $51 million on public relations that same month.
The DHS paid a consultancy $14 million to recruit just two border patrol agents in 2017. bit.ly/2YOaDIJ
The DHS spent $51 million on public relations that same month.
The DHS paid a consultancy $14 million to recruit just two border patrol agents in 2017. bit.ly/2YOaDIJ
And the DHS and Department of Defense spent $14 million on just four trips by Trump to his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida between February and March 2017. bit.ly/2YOaDIJ
