{"id":212460,"date":"2026-02-11T17:06:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T22:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/11\/acting-cisa-chief-says-dhs-funding-lapse-would-limit-halt-some-agency-work\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T18:45:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T23:45:13","slug":"acting-cisa-chief-says-dhs-funding-lapse-would-limit-halt-some-agency-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/11\/acting-cisa-chief-says-dhs-funding-lapse-would-limit-halt-some-agency-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Acting CISA chief says DHS funding lapse would limit, halt some agency work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cyberscoop.com\/cisa-shutdown-impact-dhs-funding-testimony\/\">Acting CISA chief says DHS funding lapse would limit, halt some agency work<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cyberscoop.com\/cisa-shutdown-impact-dhs-funding-testimony\/\">https:\/\/cyberscoop.com\/cisa-shutdown-impact-dhs-funding-testimony\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-02-11 17:06:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"cyberscoop.com\">cyberscoop.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Another Department of Homeland Security shutdown would hamper the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency\u2019s ability to respond to threats, offer services, develop new capabilities and finish writing a key regulation, its acting director told Congress Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Some of those activities would continue on a limited basis, while others would halt entirely, acting CISA leader Madhu Gottumukkala testified before the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Homeland Security.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA lapse in funding would impede CISA\u2019s ability to perform \u2026 good work,\u201d he told the panel. \u201cWhen the government shuts down, our adversaries do not.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As lawmakers held the hearing, DHS was hurtling toward another potential shutdown as Democrats and Republicans clashed over Trump administration immigration policies and enforcement, with a focus most recently on the massive influx of DHS officers in Minneapolis, where those officers have killed multiple U.S. citizens.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans said at the hearing the testimony should persuade Democrats to fund DHS, since its border operations are largely funded by last year\u2019s budget reconciliation law and a shutdown would mainly harm DHS\u2019s other agencies. Democrats said the hearing was \u201cfor show,\u201d as they have put forward proposals to fund the rest of DHS as the immigration debate continues \u2014 and as 90% of DHS would continue operating under a shutdown, as the panel\u2019s top Democrat, Henry Cuellar of Texas, asserted.<\/p>\n<p>Gottumukkala said CISA planned to designate 888 of its 2,341 employees as \u201cexcepted,\u201d meaning they could continue to work during a shutdown, albeit without pay.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will do everything we can to meet our mission during the shutdown,\u201d he said. \u201cUncertainty and those missed paychecks are a serious hardship.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>CISA has reduced its personnel by a third under the second presidency of Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>A shutdown \u201cwould delay deploying cybersecurity services and capabilities to federal&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cyberscoop.com\/cisa-shutdown-impact-dhs-funding-testimony\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Acting CISA chief says DHS funding lapse would limit, halt some agency work https:\/\/cyberscoop.com\/cisa-shutdown-impact-dhs-funding-testimony\/ Publish&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":212461,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cyberscoop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/02\/GettyImages-2257442289.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[24],"class_list":["post-212460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybersecurity","tag-cybersecurity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212460"}],"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=212460"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":212462,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212460\/revisions\/212462"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}