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Trump would cut CISA budget by $491M amid ‘censorship’ claim
- President Trump put forward a proposal to reduce funding for CISA by $491 million in the fiscal year 2026 budget.
- The proposed budget cut seeks to redirect CISA’s efforts toward its primary responsibilities and discontinue programs labeled as part of a 'censorship industrial complex' accused of exceeding its mandate.
- The budget removes offices addressing misinformation, propaganda, and external engagement, while critics say these cuts threaten election security and cyber defense.
- Trump's administration accused former CISA Director Chris Krebs of weaponizing his role against free speech and called for an investigation, saying Krebs may be guilty of treason.
- Congress must approve the symbolic cuts amid opposition from lawmakers who argue the reductions could weaken cybersecurity and disrupt DHS operations.
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House appropriators have reservations — or worse — about proposed CISA cuts
House appropriators on Tuesday challenged proposed budget cuts for the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, with Democrats saying the Trump administration was disturbingly moving money away from the agency and a key Republican saying he needed to see justifications for the reductions. The Trump administration has proposed cutting CISA funding by $491 million, and some members of a House Appropriations subcommittee raised doubts abou…
The U.S. federal government is continuing the cuts in the budgets of the official agencies. It is the turn of the agency of infrastructure security and cybersecurity to be faced with threats and budget cuts. CISA could lose $491 million. CISA is accused by Trump of contributing to censorship and abandoning its primary mission. The threat is for the moment pure form because the U.S. congress must validate this reduction, which represents 17% of t…
President Trump, in his budget proposal for 2026, foresees a drastic reduction of nearly $500 million for the US cybersecurity agency, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). Behind this budget cut, an explicit accusation: the agency would have abandoned its primary mission in favor of an ideological struggle against "disinformation", assimilated to a form of censorship. A controversial choice that could upset the balance of…
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