DHS returns anti-terrorism funds held back from big cities

Major cities are again receiving counter-terrorism funding and reimbursement for security at major events that had been withheld by the Trump administration to punish local governments run by Democrats.

The Department of Homeland Security has restored payments to Chicago, Seattle and San Francisco and other cities that had sued DHS to restore the funding, officials said.

“Citizens all over the country will benefit as a consequence of that initial filing because those releases are now beginning to trickle out,” Mary Richardson-Lowry, Chicago’s corporation counsel, said Thursday…

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