The Senate Commerce Committee voted Wednesday to support a new bill funding the broke Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP) with $7 billion, a move that sparked opposition from the committee’s ranking member, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), who said he’ll fight it on the Senate floor.
The funding plan also includes $3 billion for the also-broke “Secure and Trusted Networks Act” (otherwise known as “Rip and Replace”), which is backing the effort to remove technology equipment from Chinese suppliers Huawei and ZTE from U.S. broadband networks.
