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.
America, ya’ll are fucked.
Red Dawn isn’t going to be a physical invasion by the Soviets or North Koreans; it’s all gonna be cyber warfare and ya’ll are standing down your defenses.
Not gonna lie, in the first half I thought you meant republicans.
Well, DOGE already fired a significant amount of the staff that wasn’t focused on private sector interaction. There’s nobody left who could take time to police online speech. So a large portion of that cut just means that there will be a hiring freeze for positions focused on government security and investigations.
