{"id":251890,"date":"2026-05-21T17:05:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T21:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/21\/restoring-cisa-is-one-issue-many-lawmakers-can-agree-on\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T18:15:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T22:15:21","slug":"restoring-cisa-is-one-issue-many-lawmakers-can-agree-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/21\/restoring-cisa-is-one-issue-many-lawmakers-can-agree-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Restoring CISA is one issue many lawmakers can agree on"},"content":{"rendered":"

Restoring CISA is one issue many lawmakers can agree on<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/federalnewsnetwork.com\/congress\/2026\/05\/restoring-cisa-is-one-issue-many-lawmakers-can-agree-on\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Publish Date: 2026-05-21 17:05:00<\/a><\/p>\n

Source Domain: federalnewsnetwork.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Lawmakers from both sides of the aisle continue to push back on the Trump administration\u2019s cuts to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.<\/p>\n

Reps. Don Bacon (R-NE) and James Walkinshaw (D-Va.) agreed that CISA\u2019s current workforce, funding and resource structure are a continued concern, especially in the wake of the use of artificial intelligence to discover previously unknown zero day attacks.<\/p>\n

Rep. Don Bacon (R-Neb.) (Chris Machian\/Omaha World-Herald via AP)<\/p>\n

\u201cUnfortunately, this administration has weakened CISA in the last year. I don\u2019t think they realize the one-for-one output that they provide on defensive cyber for many of you in here, and so instead of cutting system, we should be expanding systems capabilities to protect our domestic, our non-military cyber systems,\u201d Bacon said at the National Cyber Innovation Forum, sponsored by the National Security Institute at the George Mason University Antonin Scalia Law School.<\/p>\n

Bacon is retiring at the end of his term.<\/p>\n

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Walkinshaw said he believes the Trump administration has intentionally diminished CISA\u2019s capabilities.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn terms of bipartisan areas of agreement here in Congress, restoring and expanding those capabilities and those partnerships right now should be a top priority,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

At the same time, Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.), ranking member of the Homeland Security Committee, and Rep. Delia Ramirez (D-Ill.), ranking member of the Homeland Security Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security subcommittee, highlighted similar concerns in a letter to acting CISA Director Nick Anderson.<\/p>\n

Thompson and Ramirez are asking CISA for a briefing after reports that the agency made public administrative keys on GitHub. Krebs on Security reported earlier this week that a contractor for CISA \u201cmaintained a public GitHub repository that exposed credentials to several highly privileged AWS GovCloud accounts and a large…<\/p>\n

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