Last month Rep Torres (D,CA) introduced HR 3026, the Protecting America’s Cybersecurity Act. The bill would require the reinstatement of CISA employees, restrict future bulk firings, and limit the operation of DOGE within CISA. No new spending would be authorized by this legislation.
Moving Forward
Torres is not a member of the House Homeland Security
Committee to which this bill was assigned for primary consideration (nor to
either of the two other committees). This means that there is almost certainly
not enough influence to see the bill considered in Committee. I do not expect
that any of the Republicans in any of the three committees would be willing to
go against the President on actions taken to date by DOGE.
For more details about the provisions of this bill, see my
article at CFSN Detailed Analysis - https://patrickcoyle.substack.com/p/hr-3026-introduced-cisa-reinstatement
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To my knowledge other than probationary employees RIFs have not occurred yet at scale. What has happened and what you will not see until October is the significant reduction from DRP the voluntary resignation. The catch 22 is this was anything but voluntary and all made the decision under extreme duress created by management. This is a significant brain drain in national security. For any legislation to be effective DRP needs to be addressed before October and employees currently on administrative leave need to get back to work because every day that passes is another day for our adversaries to strengthen and our country becomes less secure.
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