Trump National Security Memorandum Redirects FBI Joint Terrorism Task Forces Toward Domestic Ideological Investigations

NSPM-7, signed by President Trump on September 25, 2025, directs the Justice Department's roughly 200 Joint Terrorism Task Forces to investigate recruitment and radicalization tied to political violence and authorizes the attorney general to propose "domestic terrorist organization" designations 1234. Implementation has included an FBI NSPM-7 mission center and a joint FBI-IRS effort targeting nonprofit funding, an interim Bondi memo ordering a five-year review of antifa-related agency files, and Justice Department prosecutions using material-support and conspiracy statutes, including a 100-year sentence among Texas defendants and a 15-person indictment in Minnesota 1234. On July 16 Secretary of State Rubio's Ministerial on the Resurgence of Political Terrorism drew representatives from more than 65 countries to Washington, where Rubio described antifa-aligned networks as sharing cross-border infrastructure and named Iran and Cuba as alleged funders without presenting evidence, and the White House characterized the gathering as the start of a global offensive against "radical left terrorism" 123. Thirty-one members of Congress wrote to Trump in October 2025 raising constitutional and civil-liberties concerns, and the ACLU and Human Rights Watch have publicly criticized the directive 14.