Trump went on camera this week and blamed Minnesota for getting hacked. Not Iran, whose state-aligned hackers the FBI is actively investigating. Not his own administration, which fired a third of CISA’s workforce and is trying to slash another $700 million from the cybersecurity budget. Minnesota. Because they have a Democratic governor, and that’s apparently how threat attribution works now — not by forensic evidence, but by party affiliation.
Hackers hit water systems in seven states starting July 27. Thirty-six municipal water systems in Minnesota alone — the kind of infrastructure where failure means people can’t drink the water. DOGE gutted the agency whose entire job was preventing this. They fired the red team staffers, the people who simulate attacks so the real ones don’t land. Then when the real ones landed, the president sat at Camp David and called the victims “grossly incompetent.”
Cut the budget, fire the workers, blame the wreckage on whoever has a D next to their name. Walz is right — DOGE took an axe to CISA and left the country exposed. The only incompetence here is dismantling your own defenses and then acting confused when someone walks through the hole you made.