WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Kevin Cramer (R-ND), Ted Cruz (R-TX), and Tom Cotton (R-AR) sent a letter to the Department of Energy (DOE) criticizing its decision to revoke a Trump-era order that prohibited electric utilities which supply critical defense facilities from importing certain power system equipment from China.
“DOE has a significant responsibility to protect the U.S. electric grid and help ensure that critical equipment supplied from foreign adversaries does not pose a risk to the national security of the citizens of the United States,” the senators wrote. “While you acknowledge that ‘adversarial nation-state actors are targeting our critical infrastructure’ and pose a threat, revoking the prior Order in order to ‘create a stable policy environment’ and ‘develop a strengthened and administrable strategy’ does not justify the increased threat risk from your action.”
This letter follows the recent cyberattack against the Colonial Pipeline, which Senator Cramer commented on during a Fox Business interview last week.
Click here to read the letter.