Ted Cruz hates a lot of the Infrastructure Investment law, including BEAD

Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) seems to hate many things about the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, which Congress passed in 2021 with bipartisan support. Cruz’s hatred could presage rocky times for the Broadband Equity, Access and Deployment (BEAD) program in 2025 because he is likely to head up the Senate Commerce Committee when Republicans take majority control of the Senate in January. Sen. Cruz seems intent on disrupting the program.In response to Cruz’s letter about the Digital Equity Grant Program, Gigi Sohn, executive director of the American Association for Public Broadband, posted on LinkedIn, “Not wasting any time, Senate Commerce Chair-to-be Sen. Ted Cruz wrote a long screed urging NTIA to halt its Digital Equity Competitive Grant Program, which would provide resources to organizations that help the country's most vulnerable populations get online. I won't get into his novel theory as to why the entire program is unconstitutional. I'll just say that everything he complains about is MANDATED BY THE LAW. No, he didn't vote for the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, but that doesn't give him the ability to undermine it.”