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WASHINGTON, DC – JANUARY 28: U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem delivers remarks to staff at the Department of Homeland Security headquarters on January 28, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Manuel Balce Ceneta-Pool/Getty Images)

After website hack, Arizona election officials unload on Trump’s CISA

As the state responded to a pro-Iranian attack, officials tell CyberScoop that it avoided reaching out to the federal agency, partly because it has been “politicized and…
WASHINGTON, DC – JUNE 17: U.S. Sen. Alex Padilla (D-CA) walks to the Senate Chambers U.S. Capitol on June 17, 2025 in Washington, DC. Padilla has returned to the U.S. Capitol with a bigger security detail and is set to make a speech on the Senate Floor, where he will discuss his removal from a news conference being held by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem after trying to ask a question. (Photo by Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images)

Senate Democrats seek answers on Trump overhaul of immigrant database to find noncitizen voters

The lawmakers say the potential is high for such a system to return false positives, blocking citizens from voting.
U.S. President Donald Trump, joined by Republican lawmakers, signs the One, Big Beautiful Bill Act into law during an Independence Day military family picnic on the South Lawn of the White House on July 4, 2025. (Photo by Samuel Corum/Getty Images)

GOP domestic policy bill includes hundreds of millions for military cyber

Democrats have critiqued the bill for not protecting funds for the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.
With Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., by his side, President Donald Trump speaks to the press following a House Republican meeting at the U.S. Capitol on May 20. Trump joined conservative House lawmakers to help push through their budget bill after it advanced through the House Budget Committee. (Photo by Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images)

Trump budget proposal would slash more than 1,000 CISA jobs

The fate of the fiscal 2026 budget blueprint, which includes a $495 million reduction for the agency, is uncertain.
Chair Katie Britt, R-Ala. (R), and Ranking Member Christopher Murphy, D-Conn., (L) appear as Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem speaks at a Senate Appropriations Committee hearing in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on May 8. Noem testified before the Homeland Security Subcommittee about her department’s FY 2026 budget request. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

Sen. Murphy: Trump administration has ‘illegally gutted funding for cybersecurity’

He’s the latest Democrat who sits on an appropriations panel to sharply criticize CISA personnel reductions and proposed funding cuts.
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SEDALIA, CO – JUNE 28: Mesa County Clerk and Colorado Republican candidate for secretary of state Tina Peters reacts to early election returns during a primary night watch party at the Wide Open Saloon on June 28, 2022 in Sedalia, Colorado. Peters lost to former Jefferson County Clerk Pam Anderson, who will move on to face Democratic incumbent Jena Griswold. (Photo by Marc Piscotty/Getty Images)

Trump calls on Colorado to release election-denying clerk from jail

The state’s AG vowed to defend the prosecution of Tina Peters, an election clerk behind one of the most serious breaches of voting systems in U.S. history.
An official election ballot sits on a table as residents vote using an absentee or mail-in ballot on October 15, 2024 in Doylestown, Pennsylvania. Registered voters in Pennsylvania can vote “On Demand” by requesting, a mail-in or absentee ballot filing it out and dropping it off all in one visit to their county election office or other designated location. (Photo by Hannah Beier/Getty Images)

Trump issues executive order seeking greater federal control of elections 

The order seeks to withhold federal funding from states that don’t comply, sparking a heated backlash from legal and election experts.
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