Senate appropriators seek input on CISA infrastructure efforts, expand JCDC funding in new spending bill

Senate Appropriations Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-VT) has released his version of fiscal 2022 DHS and other spending bills, with hikes for the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency as well as a warning that lawmakers want more transparency on critical infrastructure efforts including work around “National Critical Functions.”

“The Committee is concerned that briefings on the infrastructure security mission and National Critical Functions have not been provided as required in the explanatory statement accompanying the Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act,...