How Project 2025 Would Put US Elections at Risk

A conservative group is pushing to shrink the government’s main cyber agency, calling it a bastion of far-left tyranny.

Project 2025 , a playbook from the influential right-leaning Heritage Foundation , takes aim at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) The winner of the 2024 US presidential election will confront complicated questions about whether the government is doing enough to protect the country from cyber threats.

Project 2025 says CISA should refrain from duplicating cybersecurity functions done elsewhere at the Department of Defense , FBI , National Security Agency , and US Secret Service .

Cybersecurity fits squarely into DHS ’s homeland-security portfolio, so moving CISA into a department with a different mission “doesn't make a lot of sense” Cybersecurity expert: Muzzling CISA during this crucial period, “runs the risk of creating a bubble”.

Project 2025 is “full of little tantrums” and “shows a lack of understanding of how federal government works,” Montgomery says.

Costello says it’s “embarrassing” to see Project 2025 “call for essentially the hollowing out of CISA” Costello worries that its implementation could create a perilous feedback loop for the agency.