SHORT: Is Trump cutting the US program that could stop bombings like Manchester?
President Donald Trump before his speech to the Arab Islamic American Summit in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on May 21, 2017.
The same week as the Manchester bombing, Trump proposes cutting the controversial program that aims to identify similar bombers in the US.
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