Trump would cut CISA budget by $491M amid ‘censorship’ claim

House appropriators question justification for proposed CISA budget cuts

CISA’s $3 billion budget would see a $491 million cut from what it received in fiscal year 2025. Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle wanted more detail...

House appropriators have reservations — or worse — about proposed CISA cuts

House appropriators on Tuesday challenged proposed budget cuts for the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, with Democrats saying the Trump administration was disturbingly moving money away from the agency and a key Republican saying he needed to see justifications for the reductions. The Trump administration has proposed cutting CISA funding by $491 million, and some members of a House Appropriations subcommittee raised doubts abou…

Trump would cut CISA budget by $491M amid ‘censorship’ claim

: Because who needs cybersecurity when there’s culture wars to win

Trump Proposes Cutting CISA Budget by $491 Million

The administration wants to "refocus" the agency on its core mission, accusing it of drifting into censoring the president and his supporters.

The U.S. federal government is continuing the cuts in the budgets of the official agencies. It is the turn of the agency of infrastructure security and cybersecurity to be faced with threats and budget cuts. CISA could lose $491 million. CISA is accused by Trump of contributing to censorship and abandoning its primary mission. The threat is for the moment pure form because the U.S. congress must validate this reduction, which represents 17% of t…

President Trump, in his budget proposal for 2026, foresees a drastic reduction of nearly $500 million for the US cybersecurity agency, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). Behind this budget cut, an explicit accusation: the agency would have abandoned its primary mission in favor of an ideological struggle against "disinformation", assimilated to a form of censorship. A controversial choice that could upset the balance of…