5 days ago
- Business
- Wall Street Journal
Top U.S. Cyber Agency Faces Staff and Funding Cuts in New Budget
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency would have its funding slashed by $495 million to a $2.38 billion allocation in President Trump's proposed budget for fiscal 2026. The falloff marks a stark reversal in budgetary trends for CISA, which saw its funding either climb or stay relatively flat over the past five years, from $2 billion in 2020 to almost $3 billion last year.
Kristi Noem, the Homeland Security secretary, has repeatedly said she wants CISA to focus more on its core mission of protecting critical infrastructure and civilian federal agencies, and has criticized its past efforts in election security and monitoring disinformation. The budget will reduce the number of employees in CISA's election-security program and shutter the Elections Infrastructure Information Sharing and Analysis Center, which the agency funded.
