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The Top Cybersecurity Agency in the US Is Bracing for Donald Trump
Staffers at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency tell WIRED they fear the new administration will cut programs that keep the US safe—and “persecution.”
Now, with Trump returning to office vowing to purge disloyal civil servants and turn DHS into an immigration-crackdown machine, CISA employees are acutely worried about the fate of their still-fledgling agency, according to interviews with four current staffers and another US cyber official, all of whom requested anonymity to speak candidly about a sensitive subject. The agency has already dramatically scaled back conversations with social media companies about online misinformation following a right-wing backlash, but Trump’s team could force CISA to abandon even more of its election security work. South Dakota governor Kristi Noem, Trump’s pick to lead the Department of Homeland Security, embraced election conspiracies after Biden’s win in 2020.
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