The House of Representatives passed the Domestic terrorism bill after a white supremacist murdered 10 people in a grocery store located in Buffalo, New York.
With a 222-203 vote, Congress will bolster federal resources to prevent domestic terrorist attacks.
There is growing pressure to address gun violence and White Supremacists attacks. Both topics escalated in the last few years.
The only Republican member of Congress who voted in favor of a legislature that will send resources to combat white supremacist attacks was Adam Kinzinger.
Without Republican help, due to the ties of the whole party with white supremacists and gun lobbyists, Democrats are instead putting their efforts into a broader federal focus on domestic terrorism.
“We in Congress can’t stop the likes of (Fox News host) Tucker Carlson from spewing hateful, dangerous replacement theory ideology across the airwaves,” Brad Schneider said.
Congressman Brad Schneider was the first member to introduce the initiative in 2017.
“Congress hasn’t been able to ban the sale of assault weapons. The Domestic Terrorism Prevention Act is what Congress can do this week to try to prevent future Buffalo shootings,” Schneider mentioned.
Supporters of the House bill say it will fill the gaps in intelligence-sharing among the Justice Department, Department of Homeland Security, and the FBI so that officials can better track and respond to the growing threat of white extremist terrorism.
Under current law, the three federal agencies already work to investigate, prevent and prosecute acts of domestic terrorism.
However, the bill would require each agency to open offices specifically dedicated to those tasks and create an interagency task force to combat the infiltration of white supremacy in the military.
According to the FBI, white supremacy is the most perpetrated terrorism in the last two decades in the United States.
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