New York Post - APPLE $LICED AGAIN ON TERROR

Thursday June 29, 2006

From New York Post:

APPLE $LICED AGAIN ON TERROR

By DEBORAH ORIN Bureau Chief

June 29, 2006 -- WASHINGTON - The Big Apple got more bad news on anti-terror money yesterday as a Senate panel voted to cut next year's funds for high-threat areas by $20 million to $745 million.

A few weeks ago, New York got zapped with a 40 percent cut in its share of the anti-terror pie for this year - now next year's pie will be smaller, making competition for funds even tougher.

Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), who revealed the cut by the Senate homeland security appropriations subcommittee, said, "This is not adequate funding for New York or anywhere else."

He said it's clear that New York needs more money after the recent revelation of a foiled cyanide poison-gas plot against the subways. Aides said he'll try to restore the funds.

New York lawmakers hit the roof last month when they learned that less than five years after 2,749 people died in the Twin Towers, the feds were slashing city anti-terror funds by $80 million.

The cuts prompted a furious House Homeland Security Chairman Peter King (R-L.I.) to fume, "The Department of Homeland Security and the [Bush] administration have declared war on New York."

At the same time DHS was zapping New York - the No. 1 U.S. terror target - it hiked anti-terror funds for low-risk cities such as Louisville, Ky., and Omaha, Neb., where cows way outnumber people. deborah.orin@nypost.com