Congressional Dems warn of grim future for US cyber agency under Trump

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency is the main agency in charge of protecting U.S. critical infrastructure.

Trump fired the agency’s director in 2020 for calling the 2020 election the “most secure in American history” A weakened CISA could leave the field open for hackers to further exploit weaknesses in the country's critical infrastructure, like pipelines and hospitals, from hackers.

A conservative think tank last year published its “Project 2025 ’s report, outlining a wide array of policy recommendations for a future conservative administration post-2024 .

The report recommends that CISA cease efforts to call out election disinformation and misinformation.

CISA says it is focused on educating state and local election officials, limited to deceptions by foreign actors.