Posted on 10/10/2025 7:44:25 PM PDT by Libloather
WASHINGTON — The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is among the offices being permanently downsized as a result of the ongoing partial government shutdown, The Post has learned.
The RIFs (reductions in force), which started Friday, will fire many of CISA’s 2,540 employees as well as thousands more within the federal bureaucracy — after President Trump repeatedly threatened to target offices cherished by Democrats if the party’s senators refused to reopen the government.
In an indication of the possible scale of the RIF, CISA had planned to keep just 889 employees on duty during a shutdown while furloughing 65% of its workforce.
CISA, a component of the Department of Homeland Security, was led by Chris Krebs during Trump’s first term and dismissed Trump’s allegations of voter fraud in the 2020 election, thumbing their nose at the president’s objection to mail-in ballots and calling it “the most secure in American history.”
One administration source told The Post that CISA had pumped out “disinformation.”
Other agencies and departments being impacted by the RIFs include the EPA, the Commerce Department, the Education Department, the Interior Department, the Treasury Department, the Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
White House budget director Russ Vought announced that permanent job reductions had begun on the 10th day of the shutdown after Senate Democrats again blocked a reopening of the government, with just three upper-chamber Democrats siding with Republicans.
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They were supposed to ensure election integrity in 2020 but instead were part of the steal, I understand.
Well, bye!
Private-sector career
After leaving office, Krebs joined former Facebook CISO Alex Stamos at the beginning of 2021 to form Krebs Stamos Group, a cybersecurity consultancy, which quickly landed its first customer, the recently beleaguered SolarWinds.
Krebs Stamos Group was acquired by SentinelOne in late 2023, Krebs remained as the company’s chief intelligence and public policy officer.
Krebs resigned from SentinelOne in April 2025 citing personal decisions.
The deadbeat loser Krebs should apologize to the people he got fired.
Schmukie punched himself in the face.
A friend that is a government employee was upset when they were told they were being designated as an “essential employee” and was the only one in their department that had to work. Maybe, just maybe they were being singled out to protect their job. We’ll see.
There are ~303,200 security professionals in the top 10 US-based cybersecurity firms, dwarfing CISA’s 2,540. Private firms cover much of CISA’s scope, often with greater efficiency due to market incentives.
Good for them! 🙂
Schedule another 4000 layoffs for next Friday as well
2,540 employees at CISA. What the HELL do they do?
Here’s what the FORMER head of CISA did …
FLASHBACK ….
Krebs, the former head of CISA, is a significant bad-faith actor who weaponized and abused his government authority.
Krebs, through CISA:
Suppressed conservative viewpoints under the guise of combatting purported misinformation, and recruited and coerced major social media platforms to further its partisan mission.
Covertly worked to blind the American public to the controversy surrounding Hunter Biden’s laptop.
Promoted the censorship of election information, including known risks associated with certain voting practices, and falsely and baselessly denied that the 2020 election was rigged and stolen, including by inappropriately and categorically dismissing widespread election malfeasance and serious vulnerabilities with voting machines.
Skewed the bona fide debate about COVID-19 by attempting to discredit widely shared views that ran contrary to CISA’s favored perspective.
(Much more at link)
Thanks, Jane. Wow...I was unaware of that nefarious scheming by them. Great find.
CISA primary mission, at least when I interacted with them last in 2012, was protection of very classified networks.
“CISA primary mission, at least when I interacted with them last in 2012, was protection of very classified networks.”
that and detecting and acting as a clearing house for cyberattacks in general ... that WAS it’s original purpose ...
but obama/biden reprogrammed it as a censorship and disinformation dissemination agency, keeping its original name as cover ...
Fire more of them.....fire them faster.
These are all just democrap slush funds, NUKE EM
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