Written by Rob Lillpopp on October 8, 2009 – 6:22 am
After Bronx Bomb Plot Was Thwarted, Gillibrand Urged Greater Federal Investment in Letter to Homeland Security Subcommittee
U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand announced today that an additional $4 million dollars in federal anti-terror funding to help safeguard civil, religious and community institutions from terrorist attack will be included in the Homeland Security Appropriations Bill, for a total of $19 million in federal resources. Gillibrand requested the additional funds for The Urban Area Security Initiative (UASI) non-profit program immediately after a bomb plot targeting two synagogues in the Bronx was thwarted. Funding last year for the non-profit program was an insufficient $15 million. In New York State alone, only 55 of 137 applications were able to receive any funding at all.
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