Shortly after taking office, President Donald Trump signed an executive order that effectively freezes most foreign talks.
One known effect of this 90-day freeze? Funding is set up in the State MORCHANGE Bureau of Cyberpace and digital policy (CDP), a new Bureau that uses prosomats to create technical relations and to deal with cyber threats on demand.
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According to a new report A recordA freeze on foreign aid has effectively brought the bureau, which has tens of millions of dollars in funding, to a “standstill.”
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The report notes some of the projects that CDP has worked on, such as the use of a “Cyber ​​incident task force” in Costa Rica for North Korean operations, and the selection of a telecommunications cable through Tuvalu.
In addition to the Halt in money, the US ambassador for cyberspace and digital policy Nate Fick left his post on Monday. Fick was the first cyber lightning in the US
Congress created the CDP in 2022 with the US to build political relations around the world by focusing on cyber threats and working together with new technologies. More than $90 million of its funding comes from the Bureau’s foundation budget, the Chips and Science Act, and its Digital Communications and Related Technologies Fund.
The CDP’s last post on its X account is a retweet of the official account of the State Department welcoming Trump’s Secretary of State Marco Rubio into office. The CDP account has not published a post since January 17, before Trump’s inauguration.
