The chairman of a House Appropriations panel told Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on Tuesday that he would welcome more justification for the Trump administration’s proposed spending decisions, such as cuts to cybersecurity and transportation security.
Rep. Mark Amodei, R-Nev. concluded the House Homeland Security Appropriations Subcommittee hearing by asking what the plan was for delivering that sort of information, such as for the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.
“When someone goes, ‘Hey, you guys presided over cutting a half a billion dollars in CISA to do other stuff,’ what was that based on?” Amodei said. “Clearly, we don’t want to be in the position, and won’t be in the position of, ‘Well I don’t know that’s what they said they needed.’”
