Trump seeks unprecedented $1.23 billion cut to federal cyber budget

Donald Trump’s sprawling tax bill, which he signed on July 4, contained a few noteworthy cyber funding items, including $250 million for US Cyber Command to spend on “artificial intelligence lines of effort.”

But the administration’s next and more significant funding effort is to shepherd the White House’s proposed FY2026 discretionary budget request through the House and Senate, an appropriations task that has to be completed before the end of the federal government’s FY2025 funding year on Sept. 30.

This year, in an unprecedented development for any White House, Trump’s budget request calls for a reduction in cybersecurity spending across civilian agencies, amounting to a $1.23 billion cut or a 10% drop in cyber expenditures for 2026 when compared to 2024 levels.

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