Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Vice Chairman Mark Warner, D-Va., talks to reporters about Democrats being excluded from briefings the Trump Administration gave to Republicans about military strikes on alleged drug boats at the U.S. Capitol on Oct. 30, 2025. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
Anna Gomez, commissioner of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), at the FCC headquarters in Washington, D.C. on July 22, 2025. (Photo by Valerie Plesch/For The Washington Post via Getty Images)
The letter comes as countries in Europe have moved over the past year to regulate or mandate legalized access for criminal and national security investigations.
President Donald Trump, left, and China’s President Xi Jinping arrive for talks at the Gimhae Air Base, located next to the Gimhae International Airport in Busan on October 30, 2025. Trump and Xi have both been publicly impassive about cyber operations in the past few months.(Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP) (Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images)
Each day without reauthorization erodes the trust, coordination, and shared visibility that have underpinned the resilience of America’s most critical systems.
By furloughing employees, halting procurement, and delaying guidance, agencies are operating with skeleton crews and depleted morale. For nation-state operators, this expanding attack surface and declining oversight…