House Homeland Security to mark up $865M in CISA funding under budget reconciliation process

The House Homeland Security Committee on Tuesday marks up its piece of the Democrats’ $3.5 trillion budget reconciliation plan, with $865 million for programs at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency that would go toward implementing President Biden’s cyber executive order, assisting states’ info-sharing efforts and other priorities.

The panel will mark up Chairman Bennie Thompson’s (D-MS) proposed language for divvying up the $865 million among CISA programs, which will constitute Title V of the massive reconciliation bill that...