CNBC November 7, 2025
Key Points
– The Trump administration’s budget cuts and government agency gutting, including at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency (CISA), place Americans and the U.S. economy at greater risk of hacks than a year ago, according to expert assessments.
– On Thursday, the Washington Post reported that the Congressional Budget Office was hacked by a foreign nation-state actor.
– “We were surprised and disappointed,” said Ret. Admiral Mark Montgomery, the executive director of bipartisan group Cybersolarium.org, of its recently released annual review of national cyber preparedness. “I think we can recover from this. But you can’t continue to cut,” he said.
Almost a year into the second Trump administration, public sector leaders and cybersecurity experts say budget cuts and gutting...
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