News: Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) says Pentagon career staff, Biden-era officials and military contractors pressured Congress to oppose spectrum legislation as he ramps up his effort to make more frequencies commercially available in reconciliation.
In a letter to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Cruz said the Senate Commerce Committee, which he chairs, learned that those officials engaged in a “deliberate campaign” to circumvent laws aimed at curbing the executive branch from lobbying. They “encouraged, and potentially pressured” defense contractors to lobby against legislation related to reauthorizing the Federal Communications Commission’s spectrum auction authority, Cruz said.
The letter comes as Cruz and others on the Hill are pitted against many Pentagon officials and their Republican allies in Congress over making DOD-controlled spectrum commercially available.
