{"id":234609,"date":"2026-04-23T05:11:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T09:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/23\/plankey-withdraws-as-cisa-nominee\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T05:30:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T09:30:09","slug":"plankey-withdraws-as-cisa-nominee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/23\/plankey-withdraws-as-cisa-nominee\/","title":{"rendered":"Plankey withdraws as CISA nominee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/federalnewsnetwork.com\/cybersecurity\/2026\/04\/plankey-withdraws-as-cisa-nominee\/\">Plankey withdraws as CISA nominee<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/federalnewsnetwork.com\/cybersecurity\/2026\/04\/plankey-withdraws-as-cisa-nominee\/\">https:\/\/federalnewsnetwork.com\/cybersecurity\/2026\/04\/plankey-withdraws-as-cisa-nominee\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-04-23 05:11:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"federalnewsnetwork.com\">federalnewsnetwork.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size:smaller; color:#666666; margin-bottom: 1rem;\">Plankey asked to be withdrawn, saying &#8220;it has become clear&#8221; the Senate won&#8217;t confirm him after 13 months since his initial nomination to be CISA director.<\/p>\n<p>                            Justin Doubleday<span class=\"byline_twitter\">@jdoubledayWFED<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\n                                    <span class=\"Entry-date__date\">April 22, 2026<\/span> <span class=\"Entry-date__time\">5:16 pm<\/span>                                <\/p>\n<p>2 min read<\/p>\n<p>Sean Plankey, the pick to lead the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, is withdrawing from consideration after his nomination to be CISA director languished in the Senate for 13 months.<\/p>\n<p>In a letter to the White House Presidential Personnel Office today, Plankey asked to have his nomination withdrawn.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter thirteen months since my initial nomination, it has become clear the Senate will not confirm me,\u201d Plankey wrote. \u201cMy wife and young family are owed greater certainty and work life balance from their husband and father.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>President Donald Trump first nominated Plankey last March. The pick had broad support within the cybersecurity community. Following his confirmation hearing, the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee voted to advance Plankey\u2019s nomination last July.<\/p>\n<p>]]<\/p>\n<p>But Plankey\u2019s nomination ran into a series of&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/federalnewsnetwork.com\/cybersecurity\/2026\/04\/plankey-withdraws-as-cisa-nominee\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plankey withdraws as CISA nominee https:\/\/federalnewsnetwork.com\/cybersecurity\/2026\/04\/plankey-withdraws-as-cisa-nominee\/ Publish Date: 2026-04-23 05:11:00 Source Domain: federalnewsnetwork.com Plankey asked&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":234610,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/federalnewsnetwork.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Cybersecurity_Director_15988-scaled.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[57],"class_list":["post-234609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybersecurity","tag-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234609"}],"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=234609"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":234611,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234609\/revisions\/234611"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}