Since the beginning of his second administration, President Trump has overseen significant cuts to election security efforts across multiple federal agencies. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), tasked with protecting U.S. election systems, saw nearly 1,000 personnel depart by mid-2025, reducing its workforce by about one-third. This staffing reduction was reflected in budget proposals, with requests for CISA decreasing.

Following the 2020 election, CISA Director Chris Krebs was fired after calling the election "the most secure in American history." Subsequently, 17 CISA election-security employees were placed on administrative leave, and federal support for key election-security information-sharing centers was ended. These changes, cited by CISA as cost-saving measures, have forced states to rely on their own resources.

Beyond CISA, the Trump administration disbanded the FBI's Foreign Influence Task Force, reassigned attorneys responsible for voting-rights enforcement at the Justice Department, and restructured the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, reducing its workforce and gutting the Foreign Malign Influence Center. The Counter Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference office was also shut down. Most recently, the bipartisan U.S. Election Assistance Commission lost all its leadership, leaving a critical election clearinghouse without active direction.