Congressman Eliot Engel slammed the Bush administration’s latest proposal to cut homeland security grants to $1.4 billion for 2009 from the $3.4 billion spent in the 2007 fiscal year. The proposal also includes cutting some rail and port security programs.
The10-term congressman said that this drastic cut would endanger the country and, more specifically, the New York metropolitan area.
“The anti-terror funds in the New York City region are already inadequate, and now the President wants to cut them even further,” Engel said. “This cannot stand.”
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