Members vexed by Cyber Command turmoil [View all]
Source: Roll Call
Posted May 19, 2025 at 11:44am
A bipartisan chorus of House Armed Services Committee members expressed profound unease Friday about the Trump administration’s management of the military’s cyber operations.
The concerns, expressed at a hearing of the committee’s cyber panel, revolve around several matters, including the firing in April of the general who led U.S. Cyber Command and the National Security Agency, as well as cuts to the command’s workforce and what members called inadequate readiness.
Some Democrats also said they are unhappy about a halt in March to U.S. cyber operations and planning against Russian threats and what they worry is a retreat from countering certain forms of disinformation online.
“It’s time to stop talking about preparing for conflict [in cyberspace] because we are already in one,” Rep. Don Bacon, R-Neb., the panel’s chairman, said in an opening statement. “I, for one, believe that it’s now time that we start acting like it. However, recent actions by this administration raise concern for me as to whether they truly believe it.”
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