Program That Might’ve Stopped School Shooter Was Deemed a “Woke, Partisan Agenda” by DHS

MINNEAPOLIS — A Minnesota program designed to flag potential mass shooters before they opened fire was quietly axed last month by Trump’s DHS, which dismissed it as a “woke, partisan agenda.” Just weeks later, two children were killed in a Catholic school massacre that the shooter himself admitted in journals “needs to be stopped.”

The program’s grants had paid for local law enforcement and mental health teams to track warning signs—like when a young man buys multiple firearms, quits his job, alarms the people around him, and even writes in his journal, “if I did something, they would say it was obvious in hindsight.”

The $800,000 Minnesota grant was one of dozens eliminated as part of an $18.5 million DHS purge that spared only ICE and immigration detention, two areas Trump has treated less like government services and more like growth industries.

“This program was never guaranteed to stop every act of violence,” said Democratic Rep. Betty McCollum. “But cutting it meant losing one of the only systems in place to catch warning signs before they turned into tragedies.”

When asked about the timing of the cuts, a DHS spokesperson snapped back. “Look, we cut a lot of programs—that was just one of them. If people want government hand-holding every time someone buys an AR-15, maybe they should move to Canada.”