The Trump administration minimizes the threat from the highest supremacist, warn officials | Trump Administration

The employees of the US State Department have recently opened their e -mails to find a PDF for their new “Style Guide”, which prescribes which language and terminology they can use.

According to this new updated guide, the term “racist or ethnically motivated violent extremism” – “Remve” or “RMVE” – now banned, except in situations in which they were forced to use it.

While Style guide updates in government agencies that tinker with acronyms between the administrations are not unusual. The document has not yet proposed an alternative term for the threat of violent right -wing extremists.

Current and former officials of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs informed the Guardian that this was only one reason why they are concerned about how serious the Trump government will take the continued threat of white supremacists at home and abroad.

In the past six years, the Foreign Ministry has caught up with European partners by recognizing the transnational threat to radical, Far legal law – after decades of laser focus on jihadist terrorism.

In January, a week before Donald Trump returned to the White House, the Foreign Ministry took against the collective terrorist gram of the White Supremacists, described it as a foreign terrorist organization and combined it with a shooting in a LGBTQ+ bar in Slovakia, a knife attack in a mosque in Turkey and a planned attack on energy supplies in New Jersey.

It was the third “racist or ethnically motivated violent extremist” group, which was ever exposed to terrorist designations or sanctions from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. First, the Russian imperial movement in 2020 and later the neo-Nazi-Nordic resistance in 2024.

In addition to the new ban on the use of language to refer to the threat to the threat of white supremacists, Marco Rubio, the secretary from outside, revealed a plan for enormous cuts in the Foreign Ministry, which would lead to eliminating more than a hundred offices and about 700 jobs – including those whose portfolios include racially motivated extremism.

Under the offices of the wood block block, the office is located to combat violent extremism or “CVE”, which contributes to preventing terrorist attacks in the identification of causes of radicalization and extremism before they occur.

CVE began to see in 2019 with the international terrorism of the white supremacist. Now this threat corresponds to about a third of your work. In his announcement of the plan, Rubio said that the current Ministry of Foreign Affairs was “committed to a radical political ideology”.

The upcoming changes in the Foreign Ministry will follow a pattern in which moving resources of programs away from the threats from the extreme law have been working away since Trump took office. In March, the FBI lowered an office that focused on domestic extremism. The common terrorism -Skskforces of the FBI, which examined domestic and international terrorist threats, were diverted to support the president's immigration authorities.

In the meantime, offices of the Department of Homeland Security, similar to the CVE of the Foreign Ministry, which have worked on the prevention of threats, were also ended on the far right, also cuts and funds for grants.

“If you dismantle the offices that deal with these threats, you disassemble the government's ability to deal with all right,” said William Braniff, who should have his role as director of the DHS Center for Prevention, Partnerships and Programs (CP3) at the beginning of this year and now the polarization and extremism research and extremism research and innovation laboratory (Peril) at school at school at school at school at school left at school at school.

Officials and experts who were asked by The Guardian suspected that the cuts on these programs, in particular on violence prevention programs, were probably due to the desire to only “move quickly and break things in the spirit of the” Department of Government Efficiency “(Doge), instead of breaking things, instead of a targeted agenda to pursue and struggle with the ability of the government.

Some also fear that they want to prioritize the threats that play well with Trump's basis. At the same time, the threat of all right will depreciate that Trump and his allies have occupied as a politicized fog wall for the bidges to pursue white Christian Americans. (The term “Remve” has already been viewed as a concession to avoid accusations of politicization. Officials find that the American partner countries can use the term “far right”.

“Earlier administrations did not try to censor radical law, they have to deal with real actors on the right wing,” said Jason Blazakis, former director of the Bureau of Terrorism Office, who is now teaching terrorism studies at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies.

“People say that this administration does not want to talk about it [the threat from the far right] Even more, and I think that has an element of truth. “

According to Blazakis, the new focus of the fight against terrorism is “threats that are seen as political winners in the Maga movement”, such as cartels and Islamist jihadism.

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In the U.S. State Department it was rumors for weeks that Sebastian Gorka, who acted as a senior director of fighting terrorism on the National Security Council, wanted to ban the term “Remve”. (When the Guardian contacted the Foreign Ministry to apply for a comment on the change in the style manual, our request was directed to Gorka.)

In his current role, Gorka has a lot of influence on the initiatives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. During his first short term at the Trump administration, the reporting highlighted its connections to right-wing extremist groups in his home country in Hungary. He also made comments in which he violently collected the threat from white supremacy only a few days before neo -Nazis collected in Charlottesville, Virginia in 2017. At the latest security summit of Politico, Gorka outlined his vision for the policy of fighting terrorism.

“What we are doing is the preparation of the new strategy for fighting terrorism in the USA, which resigns to the real thing of jihadism, which is the ideology of the jihads,” he said.

The formal recognition of the threat from the modern white supremacist terrorism by the US government came during the first administration of Trump. A number of deadly attacks all over the world, from Christchurch, New Zealand, after El Paso, Texas, to Halle, emphasized the growing danger of a wide and right -wing connection that has always been connected worldwide, which through a common belief in united Conspiracy theories “Great replacement”, which consider the fears of immigrants of colors, which are superior in the white dimensions in countries.

Before the congress in 2020, Chris Wray, then the FBI leader, identified the violence of the white supremacists for the first time as the top domestic terrorism threat. The US secret service group published a report last year in which the extremists of the white supremacists or neo-Nazi extremists were identified as the best global terrorist threats.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs for the threat of the Global Right was initially a hard fight, sources told the Guardian.

Even if the upcoming cuts indicate that resources of this threat are taken, it has not disappeared.

This week, the German police arrested young members of a right -wing terrorist cell because of the suspicion of targeting migrants and political opponents in attacks with the broader goal of destabilizing democracy. The police say that the cell was part of an organization called Last Defense Wave, which was organized in 70 chat groups throughout Germany. The authorities in Brazil recently said that they thwarted a planned bomb attack on Lady Gaga's concert by an extreme right -wing anti -LGBTQ+ hate group.

And some officials of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs fear that right-wing extremist terrorist groups will be encouraged to be encouraged in view of the Trump government and draw attention to them. For example, the American neo-Nazi group The Base, whose leader is based in Russia, seems to try to increase violence overseas, and demands recent attacks in Ukraine.

An official described the cuts in programs for violence prevention in the Foreign Ministry, including those who work on the threat of all right, as “excessive and carelessly reduced the government” that “make us less secure”.