The nation’s capital stands to lose more than $40 million in homeland security funding, starving programs aimed at responding to terrorist attacks and other emergencies, after the Trump administration moved to slash federal grant funding by 90 percent for the D.C. region.

The dramatic funding cuts, which are being challenged in court, are expected to wallop the D.C. Homeland Security and Emergency Management Agency and other emergency response agencies in surrounding Virginia and Maryland counties. The agencies rely heavily on federal homeland security grant money to keep law enforcement and first responders prepared for bomb threats, environmental hazards or mass casualty events, such as the plane-helicopter crash in the Potomac River in January that killed all 67 people on board both cr

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