Republican Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul on Thursday said he would like to eliminate the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) during the next Congress, but will likely need to reorganize it instead because of a lack of support.
Paul is expected to oversee the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee in January now that Republicans have flipped control of the upper chamber. The committee has congressional jurisdiction over the agency.
Republicans, including Paul, have criticized the agency in recent years because of its alleged effort to censor reports regarding the 2020 presidential election. Paul claimed the agency has tried to censor conservative voices on social media for political reasons, which would infringe on free speech, but the agency has rejected the allegations.
“I’d like to eliminate [CISA],” Paul told Politico. “The First Amendment is pretty important, that’s why we listed it as the First Amendment, and I would have liked to, at the very least, eliminate their ability to censor content online.”
Paul admitted that he does not expect to see widespread support for abolishing CISA, but said he would be open to reforming it instead. The senator said that some ways it could be reorganized are by having more hearings over its alleged meetings with social media companies during the 2024 election cycle. […]
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