Headline: Uncle Sam abruptly turns off funding for #CVE program. Yes, that CVE program
Subtitle: Because vulnerability management has nothing to do with national #security, right?
Source: https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/16/homeland_security_funding_for_cve/
So #Maddow, #DOGE is breaking the government, leaking information, & hurting people. Who'll prosecute?
Jeff Hauser said to @nicolesandler that DOGE should own the consequences of their harm.
https://therevolvingdoorproject.org/dogewatch/ lists their harm. @emptywheel has a list debunking DOGE lies.
CEOs know DOGE can wreck their companies but are afraid of saying it publicly. Our protests give them cover "The SHAREHOLDERS want DOGE out of computer systems.”
Sadly, #Forbes didn't see fit to add "for no fucking reason whatsoever" to the headline.
The ONLY reason to stop the CVE program would be to aid our adversaries. Seems.lime that is the goal for this administration.
A #Vera Institute attorney then asked on the call what #legal authority #DOGE had to demand involvement with an independent, #nonprofit org, acc/to the transcript. The DOGE employees reportedly responded that there was no point in getting into details since the #DOJ already terminated Vera’s grants.
Acc/to a transcript of the call provided by #Vera, Cavanaugh referenced the US Institute of Peace as an example of #DOGE assigning a team to an independent nonprofit. Last month DOGE took over & shut down #USIP, a 40-yr-old institution founded & funded by Congress that employs ~600 people in DC & abroad. USIP operates differently than Vera & other #nonprofits, which were NOT established by Congress & receive their funding from grants & #private donors.
…Acc/to #Vera reps, a man who identified himself as Cavanaugh said on the call that #DOGE wants to have teams assigned to every org that receives federal funds through congressional appropriations. He did not specify if this included all organizations that received federal grants.
He said DOGE would work w/leadership at these groups to better understand their operations.
A spox for DOGE said the meeting was in keeping w/ #Trump’s #ExecutiveOrder that established DOGE. [again, umm, no.]
At the meeting Tues, #Vera Institute leaders said the #DOJ this month revoked $5M in #FederalGrants that the institute was receiving to develop programs related to reducing recidivism rates & supporting victims of violent crimes, acc/to Nick Turner, head of the Vera Institute.
When #DOGE members learned that the institute was no longer receiving federal funds, they started to wrap up the meeting, realizing it was no longer necessary.
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