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U.S. Response: Ridge Plays Down Report; Says U.S. Will Spend “Billions” on Homeland Security Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge said yesterday the United States is “safer and more secure” than ever, playing down a Council on Foreign Relations report released Sunday that claims the country is unprepared to handle another large-scale terrorist attack (see GSN, June 30). The council said U.S. emergency responders will need almost $100 billion over the next five years to adequately prepare for an attack, requiring federal, state and local governments to triple their current spending on emergency services to meet the funding shortfall. “It’s fashionable, very appropriately, in the political world to assess how well you’re doing by how much you spend,” said Ridge, who noted that “billions and billions” would be spent in the future to combat terrorism in the United States. “Across this country, we are safer and more secure,” he added (Thomas Frank, Newsday, July 1).
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