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House Passes Catch-All Bill That Includes $500 Million For CISA

By Cal Biesecker

Friday, November 19th, 2021

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House Passes Catch-All Bill That Includes $500 Million For CISA

The House last Friday passed President Biden’s Build Back Better Act (H.R. 5376), a spending bill with close to $2 trillion in new funding to fight climate change, provide new education initiatives, reform immigration and more, including $500 million for the Department of Homeland Security’s agency charged with boosting the nation’s cybersecurity. The bill’s passage came four days after Biden signed a $1 trillion infrastructure measure into law that includes more than $1 billion in cybersecurity funding, most of it…

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