{"id":202050,"date":"2026-04-03T12:22:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T16:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/03\/trumps-fy2027-budget-again-targets-cisa\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T19:10:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T23:10:16","slug":"trumps-fy2027-budget-again-targets-cisa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/03\/trumps-fy2027-budget-again-targets-cisa\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s FY2027 budget again targets CISA"},"content":{"rendered":"

Trump\u2019s FY2027 budget again targets CISA<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.cybersecuritydive.com\/news\/cisa-white-house-budget-fy27\/816615\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Publish Date: 2026-04-03 12:22:00<\/a><\/p>\n

Source Domain: www.cybersecuritydive.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Author: <\/a><\/p>\n

Using an unordered list, summarize the following article with between 4 and 8 key points. <\/p>\n

President Donald Trump on Friday proposed significantly slashing the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency\u2019s budget.
\nThe White House\u2019s fiscal year 2027 budget would reduce CISA\u2019s funding by $707 million, roughly 30% of its FY2025 budget of $2.4 billion.
\nThe administration said its proposal \u201crefocuses CISA on its core mission\u201d of protecting federal networks and helping critical infrastructure operators defend themselves from cyberattacks and physical threats.
\nBut the White House also repeated its criticism of CISA\u2019s work with tech companies to stop the spread of misinformation in 2020, at the end of the first Trump administration, which it described as weaponizing the powers of government to stifle Americans\u2019 online speech.<\/p>\n

\u201cCISA was more focused on censorship than on protecting the Nation\u2019s critical systems, and put them at risk due to poor management and inefficiency, as well as a focus on self-promotion,\u201d the budget document said.
\nThe proposed budget cut, which is likely to face strong opposition from congressional Democrats, represents the latest blow to CISA under the second Trump administration. The agency has already lost one-third of its workforce, including many key employees, as well as the trust of partners in industry and state and local government.
\nThe Department of Homeland Security has not released a detailed budget proposal for CISA and other DHS agencies, so the specifics of the administration\u2019s planned cuts to the cyber agency remain unclear. But the White House\u2019s budget overview offers a few clues.
\nSlashing partnerships
\nThe White House is proposing to codify its October layoffs of virtually all employees in CISA\u2019s Stakeholder Engagement Division (SED), including personnel focused on liaising with critical infrastructure operators, foreign governments and U.S. universities.
\nUnder the administration\u2019s plan, only one of SED\u2019s four subdivisions \u2014 the one that handles CISA\u2019s responsibilities as the Sector Risk Management Agency for eight of the 16 infrastructure sectors \u2014 would remain, although it would move to another division so that SED could be eliminated.
\nCISA has rehired the SED employees it laid off in October after a federal judge ruled in December that those layoffs, which occurred during a government shutdown, were invalid.<\/p>\n

In its budget proposal, the White House said that the \u201cexternal engagement offices\u201d in which those employees worked \u201cwere used as a key hub in the Censorship Industrial Complex to violate the First Amendment, target Americans for their protected speech, and target the President.\u201d
\nRep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., the ranking member on the House Homeland Security Committee, dismissed the Trump administration\u2019s argument that CISA was overly focused on online speech, noting that CISA spent only $2 million on that work in fiscal year 2023.
\n\u201cThere is nothing that justifies a reckless $700 million cut to CISA, particularly at a time of heightened tensions with Iran and an increasingly aggressive China,\u201d Thompson said in a statement.
\nHe added that the budget reflected Trump\u2019s \u201cutter lack of understanding of the urgency of the cyber threats we face and how to mobilize the government to help confront them.\u201d
\nPushing off more work to states
\nThe budget also described one other purpose of the CISA cuts: to continue the Trump administration\u2019s transfer of critical infrastructure protection responsibilities to state and local governments.
\n\u201cThe Budget removes offices that are duplicative of existing and effective programs at the State and Federal level, such as certain targeted school safety programs,\u201d the document said.
\nWhile it is best known for its cybersecurity work, CISA also runs the federal government\u2019s school-safety program as part of its infrastructure security division.
\nThe Trump administration\u2019s attempt to divest the government of infrastructure security responsibilities has baffled, alarmed and outraged many state and local leaders and cybersecurity experts, who say only the federal government has the resources and expertise to effectively perform that work.
\nDespite these criticisms, the White House has continued to reduce the amount of cybersecurity support it provides to local leaders. In October, the federal government stopped subsidizing the state and local community\u2019s information sharing and analysis center, which forced many members to exit the group because they couldn\u2019t afford its fees.<\/p>\n

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