{"id":209341,"date":"2026-02-02T18:06:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T23:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/02\/as-feds-pull-back-states-look-inward-for-election-security-support\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T18:06:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T23:06:00","slug":"as-feds-pull-back-states-look-inward-for-election-security-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/02\/as-feds-pull-back-states-look-inward-for-election-security-support\/","title":{"rendered":"As feds pull back, states look inward for election security support"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cyberscoop.com\/cisa-election-security-cutbacks-states-trump-administration\/\">As feds pull back, states look inward for election security support<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cyberscoop.com\/cisa-election-security-cutbacks-states-trump-administration\/\">https:\/\/cyberscoop.com\/cisa-election-security-cutbacks-states-trump-administration\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-02-02 18:06:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"cyberscoop.com\">cyberscoop.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s no secret that the Trump administration has radically altered the federal government\u2019s relationship with state election officials since being sworn into power last year.<\/p>\n<p>While his first term included the creation of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and the distribution of hundreds of millions in congressional funding sent to help states upgrade election security, Trump\u2019s second term has so\u00a0 far been more adversarial toward states.<\/p>\n<p>As CyberScoop and others have reported, CISA has scaled back its election security support \u2013 in some cases shuttering work on topics like disinformation \u2014 while firing or sidelining election security specialists at the agency. The administration is also pursuing voter data from all 50 states, an effort that has been called \u201cunprecedented and illegal\u201d by one court.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Congressional Democrats, including California Sen. Alex Padilla, have been sharply critical of the federal government\u2019s support for elections under the second Trump administration.<\/p>\n<p>Cuts to CISA\u2019s funding and staff, combined with the absence of dedicated congressional funding for election security grants, have \u201ccreated a scenario where states may feel a lot more like they\u2019re going it alone than as opposed to working in partnership,\u201d said Padilla. The current senator served as Secretary of State for California before being appointed in 2021 to replace Sen. Dianne Feinstein.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes was discussing the status of a $650,000 package moving through the Arizona legislature with an aide when CyberScoop approached him for an interview at the National Association of Secretaries of State winter conference.<\/p>\n<p>Fontes said the spending package (which passed later that day) would help Arizona patch vulnerabilities and recover from last year\u2019s cyberattack on the state\u2019s online portal for political candidates. The attack also defaced state websites with pro-Iranian&#8230;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/cyberscoop.com\/cisa-election-security-cutbacks-states-trump-administration\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As feds pull back, states look inward for election security support https:\/\/cyberscoop.com\/cisa-election-security-cutbacks-states-trump-administration\/ Publish Date: 2026-02-02&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[24],"class_list":["post-209341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybersecurity","tag-cybersecurity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209341"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209341\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}