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@ Chuck Darwin
2025-05-11 01:47:13
Lawmakers are blasting the Trump administration budget proposal that 🔥cuts nearly $500 million dollars from the nation’s top cybersecurity agency that’s responsible for protecting elections from hacking and other cyber threats.
Last week, the White House sent a discretionary budget proposal to Sen. Susan Collins, the chair of the appropriations committee,
outlining the fiscal year 2026 budget.
The discretionary budget
— also known as the “skinny budget,” as it reflects the most cost-cutting, but not final, proposal for budget cuts
— calls for shaving off nearly a third of the budget of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) budget, without much explanation.
In a joint statement, Sen. Alex Padilla, ranking member of the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration,
and Rep. Joe Morelle, ranking member of the Committee on House Administration,
blasted the Trump administration over the proposed cuts.
“The President’s budget plan fails to provide the critical funding we need for election infrastructure, security, and administration,” the statement reads.
“Every state will feel the cuts,
but smaller, rural, and lower-resourced elections offices would be disproportionately hurt.
To make matters worse, these cuts are in addition to the Administration’s previous actions to terminate staff and programs to counter election misinformation and disinformation
and defend against foreign interference in our elections.”
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/trump-administration-proposes-more-drastic-election-security-cuts/