{"id":40700,"date":"2017-04-07T15:13:23","date_gmt":"2017-04-07T19:13:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.smart-union.org\/?p=40700"},"modified":"2017-04-07T15:13:23","modified_gmt":"2017-04-07T19:13:23","slug":"house-seeks-funding-transit-security-wake-russia-subway-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.smart-union.org\/house-seeks-funding-transit-security-wake-russia-subway-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"House seeks funding for transit security in wake of Russia subway attack","gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"text"}]},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a subway attack in Russia this week, more than 80 representatives asked House appropriators to make sure that the Transit Security Grant Program (TSGP) will be fully funded.\u00a0Lawmakers said TSGP could face deep funding cuts under President Trump&#8217;s budget.<br \/>\n&#8220;We must not let our guard down, and Americans must not have to fear riding the rails or boarding buses,&#8221; Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) said in a press release. &#8220;Americans made more than 10.6 billion mass-transit trips in 2015, and those systems&#8217; open nature makes them especially vulnerable &#8212; a fact not lost on terrorists in Madrid in 2004, London in 2005 and Brussels in 2016. 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