CISA slammed for role in 'censorship industrial complex' as budget faces possible $500M cut
President Trump’s dream 2026 budget would gut the US govt’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, aka CISA, by $491 million — about 17 percent – and accuses the organization of abandoning its core mission in favor of policing online speech.
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.
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