Just caught the recent budget hearing on CISA funding, and honestly, it was eye-opening—but maybe not in the way you’d hope. The discussion focused on its reauthorization, the importance of information sharing between private and public sectors, cybersecurity threats, and privacy protections. Not a single mention was made of CISA’s involvement in content moderation or censorship, with the witnesses unanimously agreeing that the privacy protections had been successful and did not require changes in the reauthorization.

It almost felt like everyone was on board with fully funding CISA now and sorting out the controversies later—like signing the check first and reading the fine print after.

I’m really curious what Matt thinks about the budgeting process here. Does he see any real chance of CISA losing the funding that’s been set aside for its censorship activities, or is this just another case of business as usual in Washington?