Trump 2.0 Brings Cuts to Cyber, Consumer Protections

The report alleges that during President Trump’s second term, mass dismissals at cybersecurity and oversight agencies and the ascent of Elon Musk’s DOGE team have enabled rapid, under-controlled access to sensitive U.S. federal systems (SSA, DHS, OPM, Treasury, IRS), drawing expert warnings about bypassed safeguards and questionable cost-saving claims after a DOGE site defacement. It highlights leadership shakeups (e.g., SSA, DoD CISO, ONCD), curtailment of CFPB and SEC crypto enforcement, cuts to USAID/OCCRP and anti-corruption initiatives, new executive orders centralizing legal interpretation and imposing performance reporting, and a geopolitical tilt favorable to Russia, arguing these moves collectively degrade U.S. cybersecurity governance and resilience, while also noting an unrelated Bybit crypto theft.