In short: The Trump administration’s FY2027 budget proposes cutting $707 million from CISA, eliminating the agency’s election security programme entirely and shedding 860 positions, a dramatic escalation that would reduce the country’s primary civilian cybersecurity agency to a $2 billion operation after a year already defined by DOGE-driven layoffs and mass departures. The United States’ central civilian cybersecurity agency has lost roughly a third of its workforce over the past 14 months. Its red team has been dissolved. Scores of staff working on election security, incident response, and continuous monitoring were fired by the Department of Government Efficiency in early 2025,…