States urge Congress not to claw back cybersecurity grant funding
https://statescoop.com/state-local-cyber-grant-funding-clawbacks-2024/
A cohort of state and local government associations wrote congressional leaders a letter asking them not to redirect funding already approved for cybersecurity enhancements.
A handful of professional associations representing state and local governments on Monday urged congressional leaders to preserve $100 million in upcoming cybersecurity funding already approved through the State and Local Cyber Security Grant Program.
Seven groups — including the National Association of State Chief Information Officers, the National Governors Association and the National League of Cities — asked in a letter for continued dispersal of the $1 billion in cybersecurity funding authorized by 2021’s Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act.
Alex Whitaker, NASCIO’s government affairs director, told StateScoop the letter was prompted by rumors that the state and local grant program may be targeted by appropriators for clawbacks.