Mullin: 1.1K CISA staff left DHS amid partial shutdown

Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin on Sunday said the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) lost about 1,100 employees over the course of the partial government shutdown this year.

DHS was closed for 76 days over a Democratic-led push for federal immigration reform after the killings of two U.S. citizens in Minnesota by federal immigration officers. The record breaking shuttering began Feb. 14 and ended Thursday.

“We are also having a tremendous amount of morale issue. So where we had a large turnover — just in CISA were down 1,100 people,” the DHS secretary said Sunday on “Fox News Sunday, noting that DHS is facing overdue bills, backlogs and additional disruptions due to the shutdown.

Last month, President Trump’s pick to lead CISA, the leading agency for cyber defense, withdrew his nomination after........

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