{"id":32564,"date":"2025-07-24T01:17:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T01:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/32564\/"},"modified":"2025-07-24T01:17:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T01:17:09","slug":"senate-confirms-official-to-lead-42-5-billion-broadband-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/32564\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate Confirms Official to Lead $42.5 Billion Broadband Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"media-ui-Paragraph_text-SqIsdNjh0t0-\" data-component=\"paragraph\">The US Senate confirmed Arielle Roth to lead the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, the Commerce Department branch responsible for administering broadband funding and managing federal spectrum use. <\/p>\n<p class=\"media-ui-Paragraph_text-SqIsdNjh0t0-\" data-component=\"paragraph\">The vote on Wednesday was 52-42. Roth comes to the post from the office of Senator Ted Cruz, the Republican head of the Senate Commerce Committee, where she worked as his telecom policy director.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The US Senate confirmed Arielle Roth to lead the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, the Commerce Department branch&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32565,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[13798,2420,27252,7264,174,27251,1343,111,74,9669,25107],"class_list":{"0":"post-32564","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-internet","8":"tag-federal-communications-commission","9":"tag-government","10":"tag-industries","11":"tag-infrastructure","12":"tag-internet","13":"tag-michael-k-o","14":"tag-policy","15":"tag-politics","16":"tag-technology","17":"tag-ted-cruz","18":"tag-u-s-republicans"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32564\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}