Cybersecurity Policy Report, House Hearing to Feature Testimony From CISA Chief on Impact of DHS Shutdown, (Mar 19, 2026)
Organizations Mentioned:Transportation Security Administration | U.S. Coast Guard
The acting director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, Nick Andersen, will testify next Wednesday at a House Homeland Security Hearing on the effect of the Department of Homeland Security’s shutdown on CISA.
“Each day this shutdown continues, it jeopardizes the safety of Americans and creates worsening financial hardship for the frontline DHS personnel who work hard every day to protect the homeland,” Rep. Andrew Garbarino (R., N.Y.), the committee’s chairman, said today in a news release.
DHS has been in shutdown mode since Feb. 13, when Congress failed to adopt an appropriations bill to keep it open through the rest of fiscal year 2026 (CPR, Feb. 13).
The hearing is scheduled for 10 a.m. in Room 310 of the Cannon House Office Building. Mr. Andersen will be joined at the witness table by Thomas Allen, vice commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard; Ha Nguyen McNeill, acting administrator for the Transportation Security Administration; and Gregg Phillips, associate administrator at the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
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