Experts say the “nonsensical” policy proposal, which largely aligns with Donald Trump’s agenda, would weaken the US agency tasked with protecting election integrity, critical infrastructure, and more.
The winner of the 2024 US presidential election will confront complicated questions about whether the government is doing enough to protect the country from cyber threats. But one leading conservative group is sidestepping those questions and pushing to shrink the government’s main cyber agency, calling it a bastion of far-left tyranny.
as an agency,” says Steve Kelly, a former special assistant to the president and senior director for cybersecurity and emerging technology at the National Security Council. “It would essentially see ’s counter-mis/disinformation efforts.” During the 2020 election, amid conspiracy theories and hoaxes about Covid-19 and the presidential election,
has devolved into an unconstitutional censoring and election engineering apparatus of the political Left,” Project 2025 declares. After dismissing Russian interference in the 2016 election as a “dirty trick” by Hillary Clinton’s campaign , Heritage’s policy proposal recommends that the military and the intelligence community take over the responsibility of combating foreign propaganda.
helping local election officials “assess whether they have good cyber hygiene,” but it warns that “ ’s locally deployed election security advisers will be pressured not to offer help in a campaign’s closing stage. , should be defending critical infrastructure operators from hackers, that’s “a fundamental misreading of US law … about who's allowed to do what,” Costello says. “
proposals in Project 2025’s plan, the most ambitious one is highly unlikely to succeed: moving the agency into the Department of Transportation as part of a broader initiative to dismantle DHS. The recommendation reflects conservatives’ desire to shrink the overall size of government, but it may also suggest a belief that moving
into a department with a different mission “doesn't make a lot of sense” and “would undermine some of the organizational logic,” Kelly says. “I don't actually understand the rationale of that.” DHS is also better-suited to facilitate the kind of cross-government collaboration that
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