DHS Slashes Staff Leading Fight Against Domestic Extremism

The Trump administration’s purge of US government workers has gutted a Department of Homeland Security unit created to combat online radicalization and credited with helping disrupt more than 1,000 violent plots in the past few years, according to current and former officials.

Roughly 20% of probationary employees were dismissed or resigned from the Center for Prevention Programs and Partnerships in recent weeks, according to two current officials and one former employee who requested anonymity because they weren’t authorized to speak on the matter. The CP3 is the primary federal unit focused on proactively stopping extremist violence around the country.