Public records indicated that roughly 1,000 CISA employees had lost their jobs by 2025.
November 23, 2025
medium
temporal
Reported staffing reductions at CISA
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) operates election monitoring rooms during election cycles to field and share information about active threats to elections.
November 04, 2025
high
descriptive
CISA's operational role in coordinating threat information during election cycles
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) was created in 2018 to help safeguard the United States' critical infrastructure, including dams, power plants, and election systems.
January 01, 2018
high
temporal
CISA was established as a federal agency tasked with protecting critical infrastructure sectors, explicitly including election infrastructure.
CISA's core functions include warning state and local election officials about potential threats from foreign actors, advising on how to protect polling places from attacks, and conducting exercises and planning for responses to unexpected election-related incidents such as bomb threats or disinformation campaigns.
January 01, 2018
high
temporal
Typical operational roles CISA performs in support of election infrastructure