The budget fine print shows homeland security grants for states, cities and local first responders being slashed by almost half, to $2.2 billion.
That was a departure from the good vibes spreading earlier in the month, when the Homeland Security Department announced $844 million in port security grants for cities across the country.
In Florida, Indiana, Oklahoma, Tennessee and Wisconsin alone, police spent a total of at least $1 million during the last decade in Justice and Homeland Security grants for Desert Snow training.
In June 2016, Franklin County Regional Special Response Team was deemed ready to deploy after taking in more than $115,000 in homeland security grants for officers' training and tactical gear.
Members of the regional Congressional delegation, who have long criticized what they considered an unfair allotment in security grants for New York, praised the new awards, which are to be announced on Friday by the Department of Homeland Security.
The vote came on a procedural motion by Democrats aimed at adding $380 million in state election security grants for 2019 to a broader spending bill for the Treasury Department, the judiciary and related agencies.
In an interview, Mr. Weiner, who had his bar mitzvah at a Reform temple on Eastern Parkway, took note of his long record of helping Orthodox Jewish constituents, having arranged extra trash pickups before Passover and Homeland Security grants for yeshivas and synagogues.
It has awarded some $35 billion in Homeland Security grants for police departments to arm themselves with paraphernalia usually reserved for war zones.
The police acquired two more sophisticated drones a year later with federal port security grant program money, for $120,000 apiece.
Agencies are competing for federal transit security grant money that has been dwindling in recent years, said Polly Hanson, director of security, risk and emergency management at the American Public Transportation Association APTAAmerican Public Transportation Association APTA
