2026-04-22T11:39:58-0400 / 哥伦比亚广播公司新闻
华盛顿讯——多位知情人士向哥伦比亚广播公司新闻透露，美国司法部正准备启动拨款申请程序，发放最高35亿美元的拨款，主要用于与移民相关的执法项目、设备和人员开支。
此次拨款申请大多尚未对外公布，资金将用于建设移民拘留设施、采购警方监控设备以及招聘执法人员等各类项目。
知情人士表示，其中部分资金还将用于支付地方检察官担任临时特别助理美国检察官，以支持司法部新成立的全国欺诈执法部门，该部门负责调查涉及公共福利的欺诈案件。
在哥伦比亚广播公司新闻就新拨款计划寻求置评后，美国司法部于周二晚间公布了一项3亿美元的拨款申请计划，用于资助协助调查非法居留人员欺诈行为的地方检察官。
此次预计推出的一系列新拨款计划出台之际，受害者服务组织、刑事司法研究机构和青少年司法项目正举步维艰。此前，司法部的其他拨款项目出现了前所未有的延误和终止——其中许多项目是由国会授权并拨款的。
另有直接了解相关计划的消息人士向哥伦比亚广播公司新闻透露，司法部同时正在收回数百万美元拨款，这些资金原本用于资助受害者服务、仇恨犯罪预防和药物滥用项目等领域，转而用于其他非拨款活动。
“拨款终止和资金延误正切实导致项目无法运转，”全国受害者维权组织执行主任克莱尔·塞利布说道。该非营利组织去年被司法部取消了一项拨款，目前面临多重资金难题，另外三项申请的拨款已搁置长达六个月。
“项目正在关停，规模正在缩减，员工正在被解雇，”塞利布说。
一名司法部官员表示，司法部正致力于确保“所有纳税人资助的拨款资金都能恰当地支持‘让美国再次安全’的相关举措，所有与该使命不符的可自由支配资金都将接受审查并重新分配。”
“这一过程的第一步是终止那些未直接支持改善公共安全执法工作的拨款。所有拨款资金和项目都将按照国会设定的框架使用，司法部将继续审查上诉申请，并向符合政府目标的组织发放资金，”该官员补充道。
“我们已经濒临瓦解”
自特朗普总统就职以来，司法部的拨款项目一直处于混乱状态。
2025年4月22日，司法部终止了超过350项在拜登总统任期内获批的拨款，这些拨款资助的领域涵盖警方部门、地方检察官办公室以及为犯罪受害者提供服务的组织。
司法部给予受资助方30天的上诉期。本周三正是此次拨款削减的一周年纪念日。一些组织仍在等待上诉结果，而另一些组织则刚刚得知自己的上诉被驳回。
拨款发放的延误进一步加剧了资金的不确定性。许多人将延误归咎于司法部工作人员大幅减少，以及一项行政命令要求在拨款申请和发放前需经过政治官员的多层审查。
整整一个财年过去，司法项目办公室仍未为许多国会授权的 funding 机会启动拨款申请程序。
例如，该办公室直到2026年3月13日才开始接受备受欢迎的爱德华·伯恩纪念司法援助拨款（即JAG拨款）2025财年的申请，该拨款用于资助地方警察部门。
负责资助刑事司法研究项目的国家司法研究所自特朗普就职以来仅发起过三次拨款申请。
2025财年用于协助人口贩运受害者的拨款仅在去年12月启动申请，且尚未发放。
“他们忽视了自己的日常职责，”曾负责青少年司法和 delinquency 预防办公室的莉兹·瑞安说道，该办公室是司法部的拨款发放机构，负责资助改善青少年司法系统的项目。
与此同时，已提交拨款申请的受资助方仍不清楚自己能否获批，这让他们的预算编制工作变得复杂。
比尔·麦金尼运营着位于费城肯辛顿社区的新肯辛顿社区发展公司，该社区受阿片类药物泛滥问题困扰。他向哥伦比亚广播公司新闻透露，司法部去年取消了该集团150万美元的拨款，且尚未回复该组织2025年8月和10月提交的另外两项拨款申请。
“我们已经处于危险之中，我们已经濒临瓦解，”他说。
被取消的拨款原本用于资助该组织的“治愈暴力”项目，这是一项基于公共卫生的反暴力倡议，由有街头生活经验的调解员开展工作，致力于平息暴力冲突。
几周前，司法部终于通知该组织其上诉被驳回，该项目预计将于10月关停。
“这太糟糕了，完全没有道理，”麦金尼说。
资金发放延误的同时，可分配的资金也在减少。
尽管国会将司法部社区警务服务办公室（即COPS办公室）的拨款增加了95%，将司法项目办公室的拨款增加了11%，但该部门其他领域的拨款遭到了削减。
为弥补移民法院、监狱和诉讼办公室的资金缺口，司法部今年早些时候批准从其拨款办公室转出7500万美元，并于3月通知国会，如有必要，今年年底前最多可再额外转出9580万美元，多位知情人士向哥伦比亚广播公司新闻透露。
据哥伦比亚广播公司新闻审查的政府文件显示，截至目前，司法部计划从各类拨款中划转1.17亿美元，这些拨款原本用于协助贩运受害者、打击仇恨犯罪、处理性侵犯受害者的法医试剂盒积压、支持失踪和受剥削儿童救助项目，以及资助药物成瘾和心理健康援助项目。
即便国会对司法部可从拨款中抽取多少资金用于非拨款活动施加了新限制，此类划转仍在进行。根据刑事司法委员会即将发布的一份报告的分析，去年司法部曾使用拨款资金支付特朗普总统在华盛顿特区打击犯罪行动的相关费用。
为弥补资金缺口，司法部正依赖其他几项拨款资源——主要是《一个伟大的美好法案》提供的350亿美元资金，用于 reimbursing 各州和执法机构2021年至2028年间发生的与移民相关的活动开支。
除2026财年常规国会拨款外，《一个伟大的美好法案》还为COPS和伯恩JAG拨款划拨了部分资金。
然而，伯恩JAG和COPS拨款的新资源对资金用途设置了限制。此类拨款不得用于资助暴力预防和减少项目，接受资金的地方执法机构必须同意与联邦移民当局合作。
《一个伟大的美好法案》的大部分相关资金都面向执法机构。因此，绝大多数资金无法用于支持司法部其他国会授权的拨款项目，例如受害者服务项目。
“令我担忧的是，他们正在为执法部门调查和起诉工作提供更多资金，却没有为幸存者所需的服务提供相应资金，”美国自由网络联合执行主任让·布鲁格曼说道。
DOJ readies up to $3.5 billion in law enforcement grants, 1 year after steep cuts elsewhere
2026-04-22T11:39:58-0400 / CBS News
Washington— The Justice Department is preparing to solicit applications for up to $3.5 billion in grants to pay for mostly immigration-related law enforcement programs, equipment and personnel, multiple sources familiar with the plans told CBS News.
The grant solicitations, most of which are not yet public, will fund everything from the construction of immigration detention facilities and the purchase of police surveillance equipment to the hiring of law enforcement personnel.
Some of the money is also expected to be used to allow the Justice Department to pay local prosecutors to serve as temporary special assistant U.S. attorneys to support the department’s new National Fraud Enforcement Division, which is tasked with investigating fraud involving public benefits, the sources said.
The $300 million solicitation to fund local prosecutors who will help investigate fraud committed by people living in the country illegally was posted on Tuesday evening, after CBS News sought comment about the new grants.
The flurry of anticipated new grants comes as victims services organizations, criminal justice research facilities and juvenile justice programs have been struggling to stay afloat, due to a combination of unprecedented delays and terminations to other DOJ grant programs — many of which are authorized and appropriated by Congress.
The Justice Department is also simultaneously taking away millions of dollars from grants that fund everything from victims services and hate crime prevention to substance abuse programs, and transferring the money to fund other non-grant activities, sources with direct knowledge of the plans told CBS News.
“Terminations and delays in funding are literally killing programs,” said Claire Selib, executive director of the National Organization for Victim Advocacy. The nonprofit is facing multiple funding problems after the Justice Department canceled one grant last year. Three others the group applied for have been stalled for six months.
“Programs are shutting down. They’re scaling back. Staff are being laid off,” Selib said.
A Justice Department official said the DOJ is working to ensure that “all taxpayer-funded grant money is appropriately supporting initiatives to Make America Safe Again, and all discretionary funds not aligned with this mission are subject to review and reallocation.”
“The first step in this process was terminating grants that were not directly supporting law enforcement efforts to improve public safety. All grant money and programs are being utilized consistent with parameters set by Congress, and the Department will continue to review appeals and award funds to organizations aligned with Administration goals,” the official added.
“We are already being dismantled”
The Justice Department’s grant programs have been in disarray since President Trump took office.
On April 22, 2025, the DOJ terminated more than 350 grants awarded during President Joe Biden’s tenure that funded everything from police departments and local prosecutors to groups that provide services to victims of crime.
The department gave the grantees 30 days to appeal. Wednesday marks the one-year anniversary since the cuts. Some groups are still waiting for a response to their appeal, while others only recently learned they were denied.
The funding uncertainty has only been made worse by delays in getting grant funds out the door. Many attribute the delays to a drastic decrease in DOJ staffing and an executive order requiring additional layers of review by political officials before grants can be solicited and awarded.
More than an entire fiscal year came and went without the Office of Justice Programs soliciting applications for many of its congressionally mandated funding opportunities.
For instance, the office did not start soliciting fiscal 2025 applications for its popular Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant, or JAG, which is used to help fund local police departments, until March 13, 2026.
The National Institute of Justice, which funds criminal justice research projects, has only solicited three grants since Mr. Trump took office.
Grants focused on assisting victims of human trafficking in fiscal year 2025 were only solicited in December and have yet to be awarded.
“They’re neglecting their regular responsibilities,” said Liz Ryan, who previously ran the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, a DOJ grant-making office that funds programs to improve the youth justice system.
Meanwhile, grantees that have applied for funds still don’t know if they will be selected, complicating their budgets.
Bill McKinney runs the New Kensington Community Development Corporation in the opioid epidemic-plagued Philadelphia neighborhood of Kensington. He told CBS News that the Justice Department canceled the group’s $1.5 million grant last year, and has yet to respond to two other grant applications the group submitted in August and October 2025.
“We are already at risk, and we are already being dismantled,” he said.
The canceled grant funded its CURE Violence program, a public health-based antiviolence initiative that utilizes mediators with lived experience on the streets who work to deescalate violence.
A few weeks ago, the DOJ finally told the group its appeal was denied, and the program is expected to close by October.
“It is terrible, and it doesn’t make any sense,” McKinney said.
The delays in funding also come at a time when there is less money available to distribute.
Although Congress has allotted increases of 95% to the DOJ’s Community Oriented Policing Services, or COPS, grant office and 11% to the Office of Justice Programs, it cut funding elsewhere in the department.
To cover shortfalls to immigration courts, prisons and litigating offices, earlier this year the DOJ approved a $75 million transfer out of its grant offices, and notified Congress in March it could transfer up to an additional $95.8 million more by year’s end if necessary, sources familiar with the matter told CBS News.
To date, it has targeted $117 million it intends to transfer out of a wide variety of grants that assist the victims of trafficking, combat hate crimes, reduce backlogs for sexual assault kits of rape victims, support efforts to help missing and exploited children and fund drug addiction and mental health assistance programs, according to goverment documents reviewed by CBS News.
Those transfers are taking place even after Congress imposed new limits on how much grant money the DOJ could dip into for non-grant activities. Last year, the department used grant money to pay for things such as President Trump’s crackdown on crime in Washington, D.C., according to an analysis from a soon-to-be-released report by the Council on Criminal Justice.
To address the funding gaps, the Justice Department is relying on several other grant resources — primarily a $3.5 billion pot of money from the One Big Beautiful Bill Act to reimburse states and law enforcement for immigration-related activities incurred between 2021 and 2028.
The One Big Beautiful Bill Act also allocated some funds for COPS and Byrne JAG grants, in addition to the regular fiscal year 2026 congressional appropriation.
Those new resources for Byrne JAG and COPS grants, however, place some limits on how the funds can be used. The grants cannot be used to fund violence prevention and reduction programs and any local law enforcement agency who accepts the money must agree to cooperate with federal immigration authorities.
Most of the relevant funding from the One Big Beautiful Bill Act is geared towards law enforcement agencies. As such, the vast majority of that money cannot be used to support many of the DOJ’s other congressionally authorized grant programs — such as those for victims services.
“What concerns me is if they are trying to roll out more funding for law enforcement to investigate and prosecute, without rolling out the funding for the services needed by the survivors,” said Jean Bruggeman, co-executive director at Freedom Network USA.