Trump wants to take a battle axe to CISA again and slash $707M from budget

The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency's budget will see yet another deep cut if Congress approves President Trump's proposal to slash CISA's spending by $707 million in fiscal year 2027. America's lead cyber-defense agency already lost millions in funding and about a third of its workforce (close to 1,000 …

[elsergiovolador]

Mandate

Why don't he just give access to Russians/Israelis/and whoever else has Epstein files.

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Mandate

Better to use more of those Nork contractors we read about. They are far cheaper, for the savings he craves, and NK has a greater interest in the long term economic success of the US than it's administration.

(being bombarded by spam for holidays in joyful Pyongyang would be a small price to pay)

[Groo The Wanderer - A Canuck]

Dunno how anyone can claim that orange yutz isn't a Russian operative... he's certainly doing everything he can to destroy the US and it's reputation from the inside out.

[that one in the corner]

To say that he is working for the Russians is giving him too much credit for understanding international relations.

He is doing all this for his own glory (as he perceives it): note the part about "target the President".

Get rid of "duplication at State and Federal levels" and if anything goes wrong it is the States' fault, not the Federal President's: he "enabled" them and they fluffed it.

[Yet Another Anonymous coward]

>claim that orange yutz isn't a Russian operative

People are just debating if he knows he is

[Michael Strorm]

I think you're confusing "operative" with "asset". As far as I'm aware, the former would imply some level of intentional involvement, but someone like Trump can be considered an intelligence "asset" if he's capable of being used or manipulated for whatever reason, regardless of whether he's conscious of that.

[Cruachan]

I saw a news article this week where Russia denied he was an actual asset (I.e. knowingly working for them) but because he's so easily manipulated they consider him a "useful idiot"

[Michael Strorm]

The point I was making was that somone doesn't have to be "knowingly working for them" to be considered an "asset".

Trump can be both an "asset" *and* a "useful" idiot, something that the Wikipedia article would seem to back up:-

There are different categories of assets [..including those who..] Have been blackmailed and are forced into their role [..and those who..] Do not even know they are being used (so called "useful idiots").

I'm fairly sure that Trump *is*- at least- the latter.

> "I saw a news article this week where Russia denied he was an actual asset (I.e. knowingly working for them)"

Who constitutes "Russia" here? The Russian government (i.e. the Putin regime)? I wouldn't trust what they claimed as far as I could throw it- they'll say whatever suits them best.

Regardless, I wouldn't dismiss the possibility that he'd been blackmailed or leaned on by people working for Russia- possibly indirectly though, so he doesn't grow resentful of the Putin regime and they can still exploit and play on his obvious fandom of Putin (i.e. have it both ways).

[Jellied Eel]

Regardless, I wouldn't dismiss the possibility that he'd been blackmailed or leaned on by people working for Russia- possibly indirectly though, so he doesn't grow resentful of the Putin regime and they can still exploit and play on his obvious fandom of Putin (i.e. have it both ways).

Current events should suggest who's influencing Trump, or the neocons behind Trump. Epstein, Maxwell, and a lot of influential people from, or supportive of a nation that isn't Russia. And now suckered (or blackmailed) Trum into bombing Iran back to the stone age. .

[Anonymous Coward]

Knows vs doesn't know?

I don't think there's any question that he knows he'd be in jail if he wasn't in the White House.

That's all the motivation someone like that needs. Blackmail? No need, just be the scapegoat who takes the blame for all the things we want done, in return for money, power, and the ability to censor anything and everything in the country in the name of national security. Bonus: better health care than any amount of money can buy.

It's not conspiracy theory if it's not theory.

Anonymous because I don't want to die in a concentration camp, or by "accident."

[The man with a spanner]

I'm not sure Trump and intelligence can exist in the same sentence.

[Groo The Wanderer - A Canuck]

In the same sense that a rutabaga is "intelligent."

[Anonymous Coward]

Thus spoke Our Most Magnificent Leader, the Foremost Supreme Orange, Mastermind of all Masterminds

We don't need no stinkin' "shared awareness, early warning, and aligned response", what we need is blind OBEDIENCE. Blind obedience and blind loyalty to the visionary Orange rule and Politburo, enforced by the Orange ICE Gestapo!

Our potbellies and heads must be free of censorship as they call the skittles Orange for "[putting] them at risk due to poor management and inefficiency, as well as a focus on self-promotion", and that's a fact, validated by the Ministry of Truth Social, stamping on all human faces forever, henceforthwith. Ignorance is strength as we eliminate this year those "programs focused on so-called misinformation and propaganda" that we "already axed in the first year of [our] second term" (last year), and we just plain won't "clarify plans to cut programs that have already been eliminated", cuz werez daz bossez, OKAY, geddit? Voters (so-called) answer to us, NOT the other way around!!

And war is peace so give us that goddam Orange Nobel Prize already you Swedish wankers, or do we need to invade Greenland and Canada first, insult Macron's wife again once more, or fire more of our own inept-by-design attorney generals (that incompetent wuss couldn't even damn shield us from Epstein!) and the likes (DHS' empty hair extensions ...) before you all pull the surströmming out of your meatballs and get with the Orange program you slow-poking dimwits!!!

Bottom line is CISA must focus first and foremost on its most important key job: finding all those billions of Haitians that BBQ our pet dogs and cats on the weekend. They're the real cyber-security threat!!!! _{</the-dystopia-is-way-too-real-now! ;( >}

[Bebu sa Ware]

Re: BBQ our pet dogs and cats

"billions of Haitians that BBQ our pet dogs and cats on the weekend."

They will have stand in line behind queues of mindless MAGAts, if these loonies completely trash the US economy which looking increasingly probable.

Curious. What are these Haitian purported to do Mon-Fri? Cassoulet de chat and Daube du chien (doggie adobo)?

Why just the weekends?

Giving the declining standards of US food safety your neighbours' pet might be the safer alternative but then so would fresh(ish) road kill.

[Michael Strorm]

Re: BBQ our pet dogs and cats

> "They will have stand in line behind queues of mindless MAGAts, if these loonies completely trash the US economy which looking increasingly probable"

It's clear now that the only way that the majority of Americans *will* care about Trump- and what he's doing- if they ever care at all, will be when it starts to seriously affect their everyday lives, which in practice means the economy.

From the point of view of someone who *isn't* American, I'd have absolutely no fucking problem with this whatsoever if it wasn't the case that there will be adverse consequences for myself and everyone else. But that's already baked in and we're going to suffer the consequences of Trump regardless.

What's important- and a positive thing from my point of view- is that the American people who enabled this sociopathic POS are finally suffering some consequences as well. As far as I'm concerned, the harder they get that, the better.

The majority- over two thirds- of eligible American voters either voted for this mockery of a human being who was manifestly unfit for the job to become president, or were at least okay enough with the prospect of him winning- or stupid, or lazy- not to get off their backsides and vote against him.

Sucks if you're one of the (less than) one-in-three Americans who doesn't fall into either of those groups, but you've been screwed over by your fellow countrymen and no-one else. America as a whole was okay with voting this prick in for a second term- knowing full well who he was- and they need to Find Out as harshly and mercilessly as possible.

Fuck you, and fuck your economy.

[hayzoos]

Re: BBQ our pet dogs and cats

You seem to be referring to a popular vote tally of two thirds majority. That is not necessary, only an absolute majority of electors of the electoral college is needed to win the election. Usually the popular vote winner is also the electoral college winner, not always, and congress may select the winner if an absolute majority is not achieved.

The actual popular vote for Trump's last win is 49.8% and Harris 48.3% remaining 1.9% going to others. As you can see very slightly less than half of the participating voters selected Trump. But Trump did have a "landslide win" of 0.6% over Harris, it was HUGE! Therefore, Trump has a mandate to implement his policies.

Current polls have even fewer approving of Trump's performance. Yet, he continues the mayhem. Hopefully, the midterms take wind out of his sails.

[Michael Strorm]

Re: BBQ our pet dogs and cats

I'm well aware of all that, and it's completely missing the point.

I wasn't discussing what Trump needed to win, I was discussing who was to blame.

Specifically, how many Americans voted for Trump *or* who didn't care enough about the prospect of him winning not to bother voting at all (against him or otherwise) and are just as responsible as far as I'm concerned.

Turnout was 64.1%, so of everyone eligible to do so, 35.9% didn't bother to vote , and 49.8 x 64.1 = 31.9% actively voted for Trump.

That means less than one third of Americans bothered to vote against Trump.

[retiredFool]

Re: Thus spoke Our Most Magnificent Leader, the Foremost Supreme Orange...

We do need some extra coin for some cost overruns on the ballroom though. Priorities. Gotta have priorities.

[Michael Hoffmann]

Don't understand the criticism!

1.5 trillion dollars in military spending don't just pay for themselves (*), gotta cut somewhere!

(*) actually they do pay for themselves, as fast as the printers can keep up, or the computers spit out funny numbers. If countries weren't still auto-buying US bonds, they'd have gone bankrupt a long time ago.

[Blazde]

Re: Don't understand the criticism!

Absolutely. 707mil is enough for almost one fortieth of an Iran war (so far). Find another 39 departments doing bookish stuff no one cares about like this CISA nonsense and we can have more weeks of pretty televised explosions!

[El.Mich.]

You might enter "Genosse (English: "comrade") Krasnov" into the search engine of your liking ...

... and then you might be in for a little surprise _at_first_. Only to be thinking soon after: "Well, f... it! This is probably about the best explanation for all these strange actions and behaviours of this strange guy (luckily not here but there over the Atlantic)"

We (Germans) had had our "own" Adolf Hitler (Well, to be totally correct, "we" lent him from the Austrians.) and hopefully have learnt our lesson. Let's see how other nations will cope with their respective "Adolf"! SCNR! ;-)

TL:DR

"Former Intelligence Officer Alnur Mussayev Claims KGB Recruited Donald Trump Under Codename ‘Agent Krasnov’, Trump Serving USSR and Russia for 37 Years"

https://www.globaldefensecorp.com/2025/03/09/trump-kgb-agent/

... ... ...

Hope that helps you, dear reader, and all the Americans as well, how their "GOAT" in the oval office is really ticking. One cannot make up such shit! SCNR! ;-) To me, this sounded totally ridiculous _at_first_, but after some thinking and taking a closer and longer look at what "this strange guy" is doing each day from here to over the Atlantic this probably is about the most plausible explanation for all this madness.

Go figure ...! ;-)

[El.Mich.]

Re: You might enter "Genosse (English: "comrade") Krasnov" into the search engine of your liking ...

Well, f... it! :-(

Clear proof, that English is obviously not my native tongue, would probably be, to have mixed up "borrow", which I had actually meant, with "lend" Sorry! ;-)

[Winkypop]

Well done comrade

New shiny trinket is in mail.

[IGotOut]

It makes sense...

..as the US will only be using outdated, obsolete routers from now on, there is no point trying even trying to protect the countries infrastructure.

Come 2028:

"We've detected an critical attack that is using Netgear routers from before 2023. It seems only the USA is affected as everyone else has since bought newer, more secure kit. Our advice is to suck it up, as Netgear said these were EoL in 2026."

[Bebu sa Ware]

Losing the Cyberwar ?

How many wars can this administration lose ?

CISA is/was an extremely useful resource for IT security available to the world like the NIH, CDCs etc were for health.

The loss of many of these resources has had a wide and profound impact but the most devastating impacts will be on the US itself.

At this juncture the US appears to be strenuously striving to not only write itself out of history but conceivably out of existence.

Possibly the only nation to to be awarded a Darwin award. Certainly an 'A' for effort.

[blu3b3rry]

Re: Losing the Cyberwar ?

It doesn't matter that food and fuel prices are through the roof, unemployment is rising, crumbling national infrastructure is getting funding cut to pay for vanity projects and the country is stuck in yet another pointless war run by an alcoholic, bible thumping moron with no exit strategy.

It appears that the MAGA wingnuts think all this is worth it to "own the libs" or what have you.

At a time when cyberattacks on US infrastructure are through the roof from Iran and elsewhere, cutting funding to the agency responsible for such security is profoundly stupid.

[Yet Another Anonymous coward]

Re: Losing the Cyberwar ?

I see it as the USA finally maturing.

It was terribly unfair that they had a military that could beat up any other military, especially when they only used it on goat farmers. Now they have decided to level the playing field and allow an Iranian/Russian/Belgian teenager to engage on equal terms with a $20Bn aircraft carrier

Well done chaps, we'll have you playing cricket and applauding the loser at Wimbledon soon

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Losing the Cyberwar ?

> allow an Iranian/Russian/Belgian teenager to engage on equal terms with a $20Bn aircraft carrier

Self-immolating aircraft carrier laundries were only installed to help level the playing field?

[Yet Another Anonymous coward]

Re: Losing the Cyberwar ?

Probably a result of the marketing department finally discovering fire and testing if the customer wanted it to be fitted nasally

[ComicalEngineer]

Tongue only slightly in cheek ...

I wonder what would happen if the mighty Trump Empire got a ransomeware attack?

"Pay is $10TN in bitcoin or we nuke the data..."

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Tongue only slightly in cheek ...

Pay is $10TN in bitcoin or we release the data...

[CuberHubs]

Duplication of effort

"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 President's office already has censorship, poor management, inefficiency and self-promotion covered. Don't need a separate agency.

[Cruachan]

Given how much disinformation comes out of this administration it's no surprise they want t defund an organisation trying to combat it.

Also he needs money to re-open Alcatraz, as that idiotic plan has also resurfaced this week despite there being some very obvious more pressing issues that should be the focus at the moment.

[Anonymous Coward]

Last I heard, Alcatraz is swarming with non-American aliens that don't have green cards, so it only makes sense to re-open it and lock them all up!

[Yet Another Anonymous coward]

Continuing President Bush's war on tourism ?

[ecofeco]

There is no bottom

There is no bottom to this insanity.

[Extreme Aged Parent]

One wonders who's side he is on, and after todays disgusting rant I think I am sure, not ours!

[Taliesinawen]

'this would weaken the system for managing cyber risk'

CISA hasn't very successfully manage cyber risk up to now. Just another bloated government department funded by the long suffering tax payers.

[gosand]

Every accusation is an admission

His description of CISA is a description of himself...

"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."

[Benegesserict Cumbersomberbatch]

Re: Every accusation is an admission

That's called projection. The lack of cognitive dissonance is probably something to do with the lack of cognition.

[Mitoo Bobsworth]

Veni Vidi Deliqui (I came, I saw, I failed)

This is just like the fable about Nero & Rome, only Trump is burning the World, and the rest of the USA is fiddling.

[Anonymous Coward]

Don't worry!

Don't worry! When push comes to shove they can dispatch a couple of buses full of ICE agents to help out, just like they did at the airport. Works a treat!