House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Mark Green has reported that CISA plans to cut its workforce by a third, particularly affecting threat hunting and vulnerability management staff. Green supports these cuts but urges caution to ensure essential operations protecting critical infrastructure remain intact. Meanwhile, Secretary Kristi Noem has committed to reevaluating CISA's spending priorities and stated the agency needs to become more effective and focused in its mission following recent criticisms over its disinformation monitoring during the COVID-19 pandemic and the 2020 election.
Green emphasized, "I'm okay with cuts at CISA, but what I'm trying to say is we have to be very careful about who and what we cut, because CISA does have a mission to overwatch our critical infrastructure and make sure the bad guys aren't getting in."
Noem stated, "CISA needs to be much more effective, smaller, more nimble, to really fulfill their mission, which is to hunt and to help harden our nation's critical infrastructure."
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