Former NSA official says federal worker cuts will have ‘devastating impact’ on cyber and national security

Former US CyberScript official Rob Joyce told lawmakers on Wednesday that the reduction in federal probationary employees would have a “devastating impact on US national security.”

Joyce, who was the director of the National Security Agency’s CyberScureti until retiring in 2024, was testifying to the US House Committee on the Chinese Communist Party, which has been investigating China’s huge hacking campaign by China in recent years targeting the US government.

“I want to raise my serious concerns that the aggressive threats of cutting the probationary employees of the US government will have a devastating impact on cyberciction and our national security,” said Joyce.

The probationary staff is a federal employee with less than a year. Since taking office, the Trump administration has tried to dismiss almost all probationary workers. Is a federal court Since there is temporarily blocked Massive firing.

Joyce told the committee that eliminating the probationary federal employees “will eliminate the pipeline of high -profile capacity responsible for hunting and elimination [China-backed] Threats. “