A Select Committee has heard concerns from a former NSA cybersecurity chief Rob Joyce has warned layoffs will have a devastating affect on National Security Over 100,000 federal workers have been made redundant or taken retirement The House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party has been told by the former National Security Agency (NSA) director of cybersecurity how culling workers from federal departments will have a “devastating impact” on national security and cybersecurity.

Would 'destroy a pipeline of top talent essential for hunting' Chinese spies in US networks, Congress told Video Looming staffing cuts to America's security and intelligence agencies, if carried out,

Rob Joyce, former NSA director of cybersecurity, told the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party of the harm from aggressive threats to cut U.S. government employees. "Eliminating probationary employees will destroy a pipeline of top talent,

A former senior intelligence official warned that cuts the federal workforce by President Donald Trump’s administration would put US national security at risk, as the government works on strategies to counter continuous Chinese state-sponsored hacking campaigns.