Trump cut more than $800 million in public safety grants, including about $150 million from violence intervention and prevention programs, reversing years of strategic investment in evidence-informed and community-rooted responses to violence and making this work much harder to carry out and sustain.

States must allocate dedicated funding in their annual budgets to support CVI initiatives, as well as establish sustainable, long-term funding streams for CVI outside of annual budgets.

Trump shuttered the White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention, which helped coordinate federal response efforts to mass shootings and community gun violence. It also worked directly with state and local partners to address gun violence through the implementation of the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act and executive actions on gun safety.

States must create their own dedicated infrastructure to coordinate efforts on gun violence prevention across the state, like a state office of gun violence prevention.

Trump cut hundreds of staff from vital programs across the CDC and the Department of Health and Human Services, including experts who maintained key data sources, oversaw the allocation of research grants and violence prevention programs, developed and maintained injury dashboards, and so much more—all of which the gun safety movement relies on to develop solutions that will help fight gun violence.

States must establish dedicated funding streams to support existing gun violence research programs or create new ones.