Just days after conservative influencer and anti-trans advocate Charlie Kirk was killed last September, journalist Ken Klippenstein warned in two reports that the Trump administration was not only stripping trans communities out of government assessments of anti-LGBTQ+ community threats, but was also targeting political dissent over “common beliefs” associated with “anti-Christian,” “anti-American,” and “anti-capitalism” opinions, including beliefs out of alignment with the gender binary.

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“Gender extremism” was now to be equated with domestic terrorism.

The justification was laid out in what administration insiders called “NSPM-7,” or National Security Presidential Memorandum 7.

“This is the first time in American history that there is an all-of-government effort to dismantle left-wing terrorism,” Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller said at the time, referring to the memo’s issuance amid the pitchfork-carrying response to what MAGE referred to as Kirk’s “left-wing” assassination.

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Among the government’s “terrorism” targets: transgender people, whom the far-right have erroneously blamed for an epidemic of mass shootings, including Kirk’s. Tyler Robinson, charged with Kirk’s murder, is a cisgender man who has a transgender girlfriend.

But now Miller’s paranoia about trans left-wing terrorists is getting a budget.

In the recently released Fiscal Year 2027 FBI Budget Request to Congress, the Department of Justice (DOJ) spells out a Miller-esque framework to address threats to “the Homeland” and our “way of life” in a section titled “Domestic Terrorism.”

“Domestic terrorists — who are motivated by a range of ideologies and galvanized by recent political and societal events in the United States — pose an elevated threat to the Homeland,” the DOJ details.

“Commonly, [their] violent conduct relates to views associated with anti-Americanism, anti-capitalism, and anti-Christianity; support for the overthrow of the U.S. Government (USG); extremism on migration, race, and gender; and hostility towards those who hold traditional American views on family, religion, and morality,” the request claims.

Citing Trump’s “NSPM-7,” which directs the FBI to coordinate a “comprehensive” response to this “threat,” the DOJ requests funding for the recently created Joint Mission Center (JMC), a Joint Terrorism Task Force on steroids which coordinates “personnel from 10 agencies who possess [counterterrorism] and criminal operational and analytical expertise” to combat Miller’s “left wing terrorism” bogeyman.

Included in the Joint Mission Center’s remit: “proactive” internet surveillance of anyone in opposition to those “traditional American views.”

“Domestic terrorists exploit a variety of popular social media platforms, smaller websites with targeted audiences, and encrypted chat applications. They use these platforms to recruit new adherents, plan and rally support for in-person actions, and disseminate materials encouraging radicalization and mobilization to violence,” the request explains.

“The JMC is working to counter [domestic terrorism] and organized political violence by integrating intelligence, operational support, and financial analysis to proactively identify networks and prosecute domestic terrorist and related criminal actors,” it continues. 

The DOJ requests $166 million to fund the JMC for the 2027 fiscal year. Lawmakers have until October 1 to approve the request.

“NSPM-7 is a deliberate attempt to sow fear and intimidate and silence opposition to the president’s abuses,” Hina Shamsi, director of the American Civil Liberties Union’s National Security Project, wrote in October 2025 following release of the memo. The DOJ’s request uses much of the same language as in the NSPM-7.

Shamsi called it “a fever dream of conspiracies, outright falsehoods, and the president’s distorted equation of criticism of his policies by real or perceived political opponents with ‘criminal and terroristic conspiracies.'” NSPM-7 added a whole new class of “common beliefs” to an ever-growing list of what Trump calls the “enemy within.”

Trump’s latest project persecuting the left “ignores what any responsible understanding of actual political violence would make clear: political violence does not fit into neat ideological buckets,” Shamsi said.

“After all, the January 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol by the president’s supporters is a paradigmatic example of actual political violence, but NSPM-7 pointedly fails even to mention it,” Shamsi added

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