President Donald Trump’s budget request to Congress includes the largest counterterrorism spending increase in years and establishes a new FBI-led center dedicated to proactively identifying Americans the government classifies as domestic terrorists, according to a review of the budget documents.

The center, called the “NSPM-7 Joint Mission Center,” was created to implement Trump’s National Security Presidential Memorandum 7, signed last September. It draws personnel from 10 federal agencies and operates by “integrating intelligence, operational support, and financial analysis,” the budget request states.

According to the budget documents, the center proactively targets individuals motivated by beliefs including “anti-Americanism,” “anti-capitalism,” “anti-Christianity,” “support for the overthrow of the U.S. Government,” extremism related to migration, race, or gender, and hostility toward those who hold traditional American views on family, religion, or morality.

The budget request links the center’s creation in part to “heinous assassinations” it says have “dramatically increased” — an apparent allusion to the murder of conservative commentator Charlie Kirk, which reportedly precipitated the development of NSPM-7.

The documents also identify social media as a vehicle for domestic radicalization, stating that domestic terrorists “exploit a variety of popular social media platforms, smaller websites with targeted audiences, and encrypted chat applications” to recruit, plan, and disseminate materials encouraging violence.

FBI Director Kash Patel testified to Congress shortly after Kirk’s death that the Bureau was overseeing a 300 percent increase in domestic terrorism investigations. He also said the FBI would investigate every person on Discord channels used by accused killer Tyler Robinson, and announced the Bureau was pursuing “the possibility of accomplices,” including a potential foreign nexus. Patel later concluded there was no evidence supporting those theories.

The NSPM-7 center represents one of several structural shifts in the FBI’s domestic terrorism apparatus under the current administration. Early in Trump’s term, the Bureau replaced the post-9/11 Terrorist Screening Center with a broader “Threat Screening Center” overseeing multiple watchlists covering international terrorists, transnational criminals, and domestic threats. The FBI’s domestic terrorism watchlist has also grown in that period.

Civil liberties advocates and critics have raised concerns that the ideological breadth of the categories listed in the budget request could subject Americans with mainstream political views to federal scrutiny. The administration has not publicly addressed those concerns. Officials have previously walked back claims that two individuals — Renee Good and Alex Pretti — were domestic terrorists, as had been initially alleged.

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