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Attorney General Pam Bondi previously bragged about cuts to programs supporting victims of violent crime. Now, some have been reversed following a Mother Jones report.<\/span>Aaron Schwartz\/Sipa\/AP<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n The Department of Justice<\/span> has restored two previously canceled grants supporting victims of violent crimes, including domestic violence, following a Mother Jones <\/em>report<\/a> on Thursday that highlighted the critical roles the programs played for survivors. <\/p>\n The DOJ informed the National Network to End Domestic Violence (NNEDV) and the National Center for Victims of Crime (NCVC) on Thursday night that officials would restore the grants they previously canceled on Tuesday. Those cancelations were reportedly<\/a> part of mass cuts to grants worth more than<\/a> $800 million, according to Reuters, that supported victims of gun violence, addiction, and domestic violence. The terminations came as especially ironic in light of President Donald Trump\u2019s campaign trail\u00a0pledge to \u201cprotect women\u201d<\/a>\u00a0if re-elected and to offer \u201cunending support to every victim of crime\u201d per a proclamation he\u00a0issued<\/a>\u00a0for National Crime Victims\u2019 Rights Week earlier this month.<\/p>\n Mother Jones <\/em>was the only news outlet to report on the NNEDV grant cancelation, which supports<\/a> an email hotline that offers personalized legal information for survivors in English and Spanish. The canceled, and since-restored, $2 million, three-year grant was intended to \u201cincrease awareness of and enhance access to its Spanish email hotline services.\u201d On Tuesday, NNEDV officials learned that the remainder of the grant, about a half million dollars, was cut. A spokesperson previously said that while the NNEDV hoped to keep the services going with alternative funding, they would wind up being \u00a0\u201cdrastically reduced.\u201d<\/p>\n In a statement provided to Mother Jones<\/em> on Friday, Stephanie Love-Patterson, the organization\u2019s president and CEO, said that while officials are \u201crelieved and appreciative\u201d that the grant cancelation was reversed, \u201cthe concerns and heartache remain, as this highlights the vulnerable state of services for survivors, which will affect those who need them most.\u201d <\/p>\n As I reported<\/a> yesterday, advocates<\/a> and lawmakers<\/a> are also concerned that further cuts could be coming from the Office of Violence Against Women at the DOJ, which scrubbed<\/a> funding opportunities from its website in February. The latest reversals follow<\/a> restorations of other canceled grants to shelters that support<\/a> survivors\u2019 pets, as I previously reported.<\/p>\n Mother Jones<\/em> was one of several news outlets that reported on the NCVC grant cancelations on Thursday, which were also reversed. The restored grants include one that supported its\u00a0VictimConnect Resource Center<\/a>, a helpline that provides emotional and logistical support to survivors; a spokesperson for NCVC said Thursday that the helpline would indefinitely shutter Friday at 5 p.m. EST as a result of the cancelation of the $2.8 million grant. Another grant, which supported programs for crime victims around the country, was also restored, according to an NCVC spokesperson. A third canceled grant,\u00a0used to create a\u00a0resource guide<\/a>\u00a0for lawmakers and advocates who want to observe the annual National Crime Victims\u2019 Rights Week, was not restored, the spokesperson added.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019re celebrating at NCVC today, but the reality is that our partners in the field, all of whom also provide vital victim services all around the United States are still facing a funding crisis,\u201d Ren\u00e9e Williams, NCVC CEO, said in a statement Friday. \u201cThere are thousands of great people in our country who have dedicated their careers to ensuring that victims don\u2019t have to find justice alone. As a society, we owe it to victims and providers to make sure those services remain available.\u201d<\/p>\n Spokespeople for the DOJ did not immediately respond to questions Friday morning. <\/p>\n Attorney General Pam Bondi, who previously bragged<\/a> about the mass cuts in a post on X, calling the canceled grants \u201cwasteful,\u201d was noticeably silent<\/a> about the about-face on Friday.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n