Grimm grabs funds to save Bay Ridge’s anti-terror unit
Rep. Michael Grimm said he has secured federal funding to keep an elite anti-terror unit at Fort Hamilton. But he also said the funding is contingent upon the approval of the U.S. Senate.
Grimm had the funding inserted into a Defense Department appropriations bill that was approved by the House of Representatives earlier this week.
“I urge my colleagues in the Senate to join this fight to keep this language in any final version of the bill,” he said.
The funding involves Brooklyn’s 24th National Guard Weapons of Mass Destruction Civil Support Team (WMD-CST). The Department of Defense had recommended scrapping two of the 57 CSTs in New York and Florida. The language Grimm had inserted into the bill would secure funding for all 57 units.