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  "description": "Former Cruz staffer will head up deployment of the BEAD program",
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  "textContent": "WASHINGTON, July 23, 2025 – The Senate confirmed **Arielle Roth** by a 52-42 vote Wednesday to lead the National Telecommunications and Information Administration.\n\nRoth’s confirmation was supported by all present Republicans and Sen. **John Fetterman** , D-Pa. All other present Democrats voted against Roth. Her confirmation came a week after Senate Majority Leader **John Thune** , R-S.D., _teed up_ her nomination on the Senate floor, and proceeded smoothly despite Sen. **Jacky Rosen** ’s, D-Nev., best efforts to _delay the process_.\n\nRoth, whose nomination was formally sent to the Senate nearly six months ago, on February 3, 2025, will be stepping into the agency just as states were _preparing to submit_ their final proposals for funding from the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment Program to the NTIA.\n\n\n\n_****There's a whole community behind your FREE membership...****_\n\n There's a whole community behind your FREE membership... \n\nThe former **Ted Cruz** , R-Texas, _staffer_ and Federalist Society _contributor_ was critical of the Biden-era NTIA’s handling of the BEAD program.\n\n“The NTIA has just been preoccupied with attaching all kinds of extra legal requirements on BEAD and, you know, honest to honest, a woke social agenda, loading up all kinds of burdens that deter participation in the program and drive up costs,” Roth told attendees at a _Federalist Society event_.\n\nCommerce Secretary **Howard Lutnick** will rely on Roth to help keep his promise to get states BEAD funding by the _end of the year_. The _former_ Hudson Institute Legal Fellow will also be responsible for administering the plethora of programs under the NTIA’s purview, _including_ the $1 billion Enabling Middle Mile Broadband Infrastructure Program _and_ the $3 billion Tribal Broadband Connectivity Program.\n\nRoth has _promised_ to work with lawmakers from both parties to expedite the BEAD program but _didn’t specify_ what changes, if any, she would like to see to the program during her confirmation hearing. Many of Roth’s previous concerns about BEAD–including its favoritism of fiber and “woke” mandates, were addressed by Lutnick’s _changes_ to the program in June.",
  "title": "Senate Confirms Roth to Lead NTIA",
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