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CISA, once a bipartisan agency, faced criticism from right-wing factions after its director rejected Trump's election conspiracy theories in 2020 and it worked with tech companies to combat online misinformation during the 2022 election. House Republicans have accused CISA of spying on and censoring Americans, and a GOP senator plans to eliminate the agency.
With Trump's potential return to office, CISA employees express worries about the future of their agency. According to anonymous interviews with four current staffers and a US cyber official, there are fears about the agency's mission being negatively affected, particularly with Trump's vow to purge disloyal civil servants and transform DHS into an immigration-crackdown machine.
Under President Biden, CISA led a campaign encouraging companies to make their systems secure by design and default, with hundreds of companies pledging to take cybersecurity more seriously. However, CISA employees and Biden administration officials predict that Trump's administration may end these corporate responsibility initiatives, as they do not believe it's the government's role to influence private sector behavior.
We believe it's our responsibility to help those who don't really have the ability to help themselves, says one CISA employee. We take our missions seriously, which is why we are all concerned, to a T, about if any decisions are going to affect our mission negatively.
