US Cybersecurity Cutbacks Come at Exactly the Wrong Time
The funding document accuses CISA of having been “more focused on censorship than on protecting the Nation’s critical systems.” The budget seeks to eliminate offices that were “used as a key hub in the Censorship Industrial Complex” and to “target the President.”
CISA has already been hollowed out. Jen Easterly, the last Senate-confirmed head of the agency, who departed when President Donald Trump returned, said at a conference that staff members were being culled with a “mandate for loyalty to a person over loyalty to the Constitution of the United States of America.” The agency has been without a Senate-confirmed leader since Trump took office.
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