{"id":234507,"date":"2026-04-22T16:31:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T20:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/22\/cisa-director-pick-sean-plankey-withdraws-his-nomination\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T19:20:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T23:20:13","slug":"cisa-director-pick-sean-plankey-withdraws-his-nomination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/22\/cisa-director-pick-sean-plankey-withdraws-his-nomination\/","title":{"rendered":"CISA director pick Sean Plankey withdraws his nomination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cyberscoop.com\/cisa-director-pick-sean-plankey-withdraws-his-nomination\/\">CISA director pick Sean Plankey withdraws his nomination<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cyberscoop.com\/cisa-director-pick-sean-plankey-withdraws-his-nomination\/\">https:\/\/cyberscoop.com\/cisa-director-pick-sean-plankey-withdraws-his-nomination\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-04-22 16:31:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"cyberscoop.com\">cyberscoop.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sean Plankey, the long-sidelined nominee\u00a0to lead the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, asked President Donald Trump on Wednesday to withdraw his nomination.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt this point in time, I am asking the President to remove my nomination from consideration,\u201d he said in a notification letter seen by CyberScoop. \u201cAfter thirteen months since my initial nomination, it has become clear that the Senate will not confirm me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Plankey\u2019s request comes weeks after the Senate confirmed MarkWayne Mullin to lead the Department of Homeland Security, CISA\u2019s parent agency.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Nation and Department of Homeland Security Secretary MarkWayne Mullin requires a confirmed director of CISA without further delay,\u201d Plankey wrote, adding thanks to Trump himself. \u201cWhile I humbly request the removal of my nomination, I wholeheartedly support President Trump\u2019s upcoming nomination for CISA and look forward to the continued success of the United States of America.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Plankey\u2019s nomination was considered dead by most at the end of last year. His renomination this year caught many by surprise, with CBS reporting the paperwork filing was an accident. The White House denied that.<\/p>\n<p>Numerous senators had placed holds on his nomination, including GOP senators who held him up over matters unrelated to cybersecurity. Most prominently, Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla, had placed a hold on his nomination over a Coast Guard contract with a Florida company that DHS had partially canceled.<\/p>\n<p>Plankey had been serving as an adviser to then-DHS Secretary Kristi Noem on Coast Guard matters. He retired from the Coast Guard last month.<\/p>\n<p>While Plankey awaited confirmation, Bridget Bean, then Madhu Gottumukkala, served as acting director. Gottumukkala recently left the position for another at DHS amid widespread complaints about his leadership. Nick Andersen is currently serving as acting director.<\/p>\n<p>Plankey told CyberScoop he had discussed withdrawing his&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cyberscoop.com\/cisa-director-pick-sean-plankey-withdraws-his-nomination\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CISA director pick Sean Plankey withdraws his nomination https:\/\/cyberscoop.com\/cisa-director-pick-sean-plankey-withdraws-his-nomination\/ Publish Date: 2026-04-22 16:31:00 Source Domain:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":234508,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cyberscoop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/07\/3C2W0P8-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[24],"class_list":["post-234507","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\/234507"}],"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=234507"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":234509,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234507\/revisions\/234509"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}