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Bid to tackle extremism in US military unlikely to be revived under Trump

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Efforts to tackle extremism in US military fizzled after New Year's Day terrorist attacks in New Orleans and Las Vegas .

Congressional Republicans effectively killed the Countering Extremism Working Group in December 2023 , starving it of funds in the annual defense authorization bill.

Report found “no evidence that the number of violent extremists in the military is disproportionate to the number in the US as a whole”.

A lot of the individuals who commit these acts are primarily veterans, and often honorably discharged,” says Matt Dallek .

“It’s perhaps not all that surprising that a couple of decades post 9/11 , we’re seeing at least some of these incidents of radical association, maybe anger at the US government and military.

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