The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency or CISA is the agency responsible for cybersecurity and infrastructure protection across all levels of the government and coordinates responses. Well with the lapse of appropriations the agency is currently operating at roughly 38% capacity (888 out of 2,341 staff).
What does this mean and where does this put the US? Well to be frank it puts the US in a crappy place to response to cybersecurity events. The US response to some sort of exploit is going to be slower and hindered and that puts the US as a whole behind the 8 ball. Colonial Pipeline wasn't that long ago but this type of event allows something similar to happen again with a slower Federal Government response.
This also affect the government ability to see how security patches work or identify other security vulnerabilities. Under the inital DHS agreement funding would have been extended for CISA to the end of FY 2026 and would have specifically provide $20 million for CISA to hire additional staff to “critical positions" within CISA but all this funding went out the door when Democrats blocked DHS funding in the name of ICE and CBP.
Funny about ICE and CBP is that there funding is now drawing from the OBBB so they are not affected at all at the moment and likely will not be if they are never funded in FY 2026 because of the 75 billion in funding. However, FEMA, CISA, TSA they all suffer for a group that will not at all. While they might score points in the publics eyes they entirely fail in the actual enforcement and operations of the actual agencies.
Yeah, those damn Democrats!
Since taking office in January 2025, the Trump administration has significantly reduced the size and changed the mission of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) as part of a broader federal workforce reduction.
Personnel and Leadership Changes
Shift in Agency Mission
Your solution then is to have 38% of the staff work? Seems pretty dumb to leave the agency to 888 people. Plus the funding for CISA didn’t cut the budget by that 17% and provided millions in funding to address critical position openings.
Executive orders don’t override everything. This reauthorized CISA again a with that it will have five programs (Threat Hunting; Vulnerability Management; Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation; Security Programs; and Security Advisors) that won’t change because of an EO. Executive orders do not have all this power you are acting like they do.
I assume you used AI to generate your list because of all the errors in what you listed.
Nuke the filibuster and end the shutdown
I have a love hate relationship with the filibuster because when Republicans were in the minority it saved us from all of the DREAMERS getting citizenship. I do think the threshold could be lowered from 60 to say 55. I don’t see any state for the foreseeable future getting more than 53-55. Make it be all of the majority plus 3 minority
I know what you mean and I have changed my position to nuke the filibuster because it's a senate custom not something stated in article 1 of the Constitution
I also think the filibuster has made senators lazy and complacent
voter ID polls at 80 percent, a clear super majority
Lisa Murk who voted yes on the Dem's anti voter ID bill in 2021 claims to vote no on the save act to preserve and protect federalism, give me a break, that bitch would have been long gone if it wasn't for stupid fucking rank choice voting
It does come up in Last Week Tonight's episode, but with a different framing than yours: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-KDUOHEZFk