CISA Budget Faces Possible $500 Million Cut (theregister.com) 19
President Trump's proposed 2026 budget seeks to cut nearly $500 million from CISA, accusing the agency of prioritizing censorship over cybersecurity and election protection. "The proposed cuts -- which are largely symbolic at this stage as they need to be approved by Congress -- are framed as a purge of the so-called 'censorship industrial complex,' a term the White House uses to describe CISA's work countering misinformation," reports The Register. From the report: In its fiscal 2024 budget request, the agency had asked [PDF] for a total of just over $3 billion to safeguard the nation's online security across both government and private sectors. The enacted budget that year was about $34 million lower than the previous year's. Now, a deep cut has been proposed [PDF], as the Trump administration decries the agency's past work tackling the spread of misinformation on the web by America's enemies, as well as the agency's efforts safeguarding election security. [...]
"The budget eliminates programs focused on so-called misinformation and propaganda as well as external engagement offices such as international affairs," it reads [PDF]. "These programs and offices were used as a hub in the censorship industrial complex to violate the First Amendment, target Americans for protected speech, and target the President. CISA was more focused on censorship than on protecting the nation's critical systems, and put them at risk due to poor management and inefficiency, as well as a focus on self-promotion."
"The budget eliminates programs focused on so-called misinformation and propaganda as well as external engagement offices such as international affairs," it reads [PDF]. "These programs and offices were used as a hub in the censorship industrial complex to violate the First Amendment, target Americans for protected speech, and target the President. CISA was more focused on censorship than on protecting the nation's critical systems, and put them at risk due to poor management and inefficiency, as well as a focus on self-promotion."
Would be useful to define the acronym (Score:4, Informative)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybersecurity_and_Infrastructure_Security_Agency
Yep, that will go well (Score:5, Insightful)
CISA is needed more than ever. And they are actually doing good work, or at least they were before the orange moron and his bro took over.
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Trump has been known for decades to have ties to the russian mafia. And who do you think controls the russian mafia ? I'll give you a hint: He's a genocidal mass-murdering sociapath.
One governement organisation (don't remember which) claimed that when DOGE knocked at their door, they force them to create accounts with root privileges on all their systems. After DOGE was gone, they started seeing multiple connection attempts using these same new credentials, coming from russian IP addresses.
They don't even b
Re: Yep, that will go well (Score:2)
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https://www.bbc.com/news/world... [bbc.com]
https://www.politico.com/magaz... [politico.com]
Hell even Grok thinks he's suspicious.
There is no conclusive evidence that Donald Trump is a Russian asset in the sense of being a recruited agent or spy. However, the cumulative weight of his financial ties to Russian investors, documented campaign contacts with Russian operatives, and policies that align with Kremlin interests has fueled credible suspicions that he may function as an asset in the broader sense—someone whose actions, w
Every single accussation (Score:3)
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is a confession with this guy.
I thought this bit in TFA was pretty ironic, coming from this Administration:
US Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, whose agency houses CISA, was announced as a surprise keynote speaker instead.
"They were deciding what was truth and what was not," she said of CISA while reiterating past promises that the agency would face cuts. "And it's not the job of CISA to be the Ministry of Truth."
Or maybe she was just protecting their turf ...
Trump knows censorship (Score:2)
Trump is accusing others of censorship. Wow! This from a guy who is threatening and has followed through with universities, law firms, and judges. I guess it's only censorship if others do it.
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#1 that wasn't the issue presented. Threatening universities Federal funding unless they change their hiring and policies to comport with what the Executive Branch wants is a truly abhorrent restriction of speech. Same with threatening the law firms for their speech to extort pro-bono services from them. Oh yeah and deporting people based on beliefs, AKA thought crimes. This is clearly the most anti-free-speech admin we have had in our lifetimes, no contest.
As to the cutting of the budgets well, they sh
Not surprised (Score:3)
Probably revenge for telling Tulsi Gabbard to stop using the same password on every account. https://www.wired.com/story/tu... [wired.com]
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She happened to use the name of the weird cult she denied ever belonging to? How curious! Another fucking liar in the admin!
Talking out of both sides of his mouth (Score:5, Interesting)
In March, he made cuts which directly impact [apnews.com] election security [politico.com] as well as disbanding the FBI taskforce involved with investigating foreign influence operations, including those that target U.S. elections.
In other words, he's cut programs involved with securing elections and preventing outside influence, and now he's cutting program to counter propaganda and misinformation as well as getting the U.S. point of view out there. Anyone else see a pattern that might imply he's not working for U.S. interests?
How else would we fund tax cuts for the rich? (Score:1)
The rest of us need to sacrifice so the rich can keep their tax cuts
Finally! (Score:1)