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22 sats \ 3 replies \ @DarrelXero 17 Feb \ on: Democrats Claim to Care About Cybersecurity but Allow CISA to be Unfunded Politics_And_Law

Yeah, those damn Democrats!

Since taking office in January 2025, the Trump administration has significantly reduced the size and changed the mission of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) as part of a broader federal workforce reduction.

Personnel and Leadership Changes

  • Workforce Reductions: CISA has lost approximately one-third of its workforce (about 1,000 employees) since early 2025 through a combination of layoffs, buyouts, and voluntary departures
  • Executive Purge: Nearly all top officials at CISA, including division leaders and regional directors, have left or were ousted. This includes the Chief Strategy Officer, Chief Financial Officer, and several regional heads.
  • Budget Cuts: In May 2025, the administration proposed a 17% budget cut to CISA, targeting over $490 million in funding.

Shift in Agency Mission

  • Election Security: The administration has halted many of CISA's election security activities, ending funding for systems that alert states to election threats. This was driven by the administration’s focus on moving away from monitoring social media for misinformation.
  • Regulatory Rollback: Executive Order 14306 (June 2025) removed requirements for government contractors to submit "machine-readable attestations" of their software security, shifting toward voluntary compliance.
  • AI and Automation: New directives have narrowed CISA’s focus to using AI specifically for automating cybersecurity functions and identifying vulnerabilities, rather than broader research.
  • Resilience Strategy: A March 2025 Executive Order shifted more responsibility for cyber preparedness from the federal level to state and local governments.
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1 sat \ 2 replies \ @Cje95 OP 17 Feb

Your solution then is to have 38% of the staff work? Seems pretty dumb to leave the agency to 888 people. Plus the funding for CISA didn’t cut the budget by that 17% and provided millions in funding to address critical position openings.

Executive orders don’t override everything. This reauthorized CISA again a with that it will have five programs (Threat Hunting; Vulnerability Management; Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation; Security Programs; and Security Advisors) that won’t change because of an EO. Executive orders do not have all this power you are acting like they do.

I assume you used AI to generate your list because of all the errors in what you listed.

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1 sat \ 1 reply \ @DarrelXero 19 Feb

I didn't put forward a solution, I simply pointed out your faux outrage is clearly partisan. You place the blame for the agency's issues at the feet of the democrats because they fight against the administration's use of DHS to murder American citizens in the street while completely ignoring the damage done by the Republican administration directly to CISA. The Democrats are attempting to reign in ICE and CISA gets caught in the crossfire because a massive amount of government agencies have been rolled up under DHS. You have a big problem with that but when CISA is directly neutered by the Republicans you are cool with it. Your take is bullshit.

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1 sat \ 0 replies \ @Cje95 OP 23h

Uhhh this isn’t even close to being accurate as the Republicans have clearly been just as damming of how ICE has handled things as Democrats in these hearings. The increase of ICE has a direct response to state and local governments not cooperating with immigration laws. Minnesota’s draw down coincided with the state and local governments working with immigration authorities to deport people who have orders to be deported.

Any loss of life is terrible no matter what but if Minnesota cooperated people would be alive and even more wouldn’t have gotten injured. Democrats have been huge in paving the way for the Federal Government to force itself on states and local governments. This is the result of making those policy choices.

Congressional Republicans clearly pushed back on the Admin across the government for funding cuts. It’s grossly inaccurate to say they didn’t because look how how much more funding ALL these departments got.

My take is a take of someone who actually is on the ground actually working for Congress.

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