DHS budget request would split up CWMD office

The Department of Homeland Security’s fiscal 2026 budget would eliminate the Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction directorate and split its functions among other DHS components.

That is among the major changes in the Trump administration’s new budget request for DHS, which also proposes reductions at the Transportation Security Administration and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. The Trump administration is also proposing to eliminate more than 1,000 positions at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.

The CWMD elimination would transfer 286 positions and $306 million in funding to other DHS components. Budget justification documents show DHS would shift CWMD strategy and policy functions to the Office of Policy within DHS headquarters. Meanwhile, CWMD’s National BioSurveillance Integration Center would move to the DHS office of Health Security.

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