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(NewsNation) — The Department of Homeland Security volition allot $110 cardinal to much than 600 faith-based organizations and nonprofits for information improvements, DHS Secretary Kristi Noem announced Friday.
The announcement follows a deadly shooting astatine a Catholic schoolhouse successful Minnesota that killed 2 and injured 18 others. Police accidental the 23-year-old shooter “expressed hatred towards astir each radical imaginable.”
"In the look of convulsive criminals and extremist organizations intent connected hurting American communities, the Trump Administration is helping houses of worship, schools and assemblage centers to harden their defenses against attacks and support themselves," Noem said successful a station connected X.
The funds would beryllium administered done the Federal Emergency Management Agency's existing nonprofit information assistance program, which doles retired currency for "physical information enhancements and activities to nonprofit organizations that are astatine precocious hazard of violent attack," according to its website.
The wealth could beryllium utilized for cameras, gates, lighting, grooming programs for unit and informing and alert systems, Noem said.
The further $110 cardinal is astir 45% of the assistance program's FY 2025 budget, which sits astatine $274.5 million.
