Cruz, Hawley Bill Would Bar Federal Staff Use of Chinese Party-Controlled Platforms
Sens. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and Josh Hawley, R-Mo., filed the Countering Chinese Attempts at Snooping (CCAS) Act Thursday to bar U.S. federal employees from using Huawei, ZTE, Tencent and other platforms the State Department finds are controlled by the Chinese…
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Communist Party. The measure would prohibit federal funding to pay for U.N. contracts with any of those platforms. "Prohibiting the use of these platforms and stopping taxpayers dollars from being used to capitalize Chinese espionage infrastructure are common sense measures to protect American national security," Cruz said in a statement.