House committee sets CISA budget cut at $135M, not Trump’s $495M

A House panel approved a fiscal 2026 funding bill Monday that would cut the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency by $135 million from fiscal 2025, significantly less than the Trump administration’s proposed $495 million.

The chairman of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Homeland Security, Rep. Mark Amodei, said the annual Department of Homeland Security funding measure “responsibly trimmed” the CISA budget. But Illinois Rep. Lauren Underwood, the top Democrat on his panel, said the legislation “fails to address the catastrophic cybersecurity threats facing our critical infrastructure.”

The subcommittee approved the bill by a vote of 8-4.

CISA would get $2.7 billion under the measure, according to a committee fact sheet, or $134.8 million less than the prior year.

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