Embattled DOJ ‘Peacemakers’ Unit Preserved in Senate Proposal

Senate appropriators would save a Justice Department office of “peacemakers” who aim to prevent community conflict, which the Trump administration and House spending leaders have slated for elimination.

The Senate Appropriations Committee’s funding proposal for the upcoming fiscal year, released Thursday, would provide $22 million for the beleaguered Community Relations Service, a civil rights-era unit that’s lost over half of its active employees since the start of the Trump administration.

It represents a departure from the version proposed July 14 by the Republican-controlled House of Representatives, which would have fully defunded the office as the Trump administration requested. The two ...