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The bill strengthens national-security controls over foreign 5G and telecom vendors and boosts oversight and support for trusted suppliers, but it risks higher costs, supply-chain disruption, compliance burdens, and potential overbroad enforcement that could harm businesses and trade.
Federal, state, and local governments and the public: the bill empowers policymakers (including the President) to exclude or block untrusted foreign 5G and future telecom equipment, reducing the risk that U.S. communications and national-security systems are compromised.
U.S. network operators and critical infrastructure owners: the bill helps keep carriers and utilities from relying on potentially untrusted vendors, lowering the chance of insecure or contaminated telecom infrastructure.
Domestic technology-sector workers and companies: by encouraging economic statecraft and favoring trusted vendors, the bill could spur funding or incentives that support U.S. suppliers and jobs in telecom and related industries.
Consumers, businesses, and exporters: labeling and restricting certain foreign vendors could raise telecom equipment costs, disrupt supply chains, slow network deployments, and provoke foreign retaliation or trade friction that harms exporters and raises prices for end users.
U.S. firms, banks, and small businesses: transaction bans and related restrictions could create new compliance burdens, transaction limits, and liabilities that increase costs and complicate routine commercial activity.
Financial institutions and commercial actors: the bill's broad standards (e.g., undefined "significant" transactions) and liability for "knowingly" facilitating restricted activity risk overbroad enforcement that could penalize routine or ambiguous commercial behavior without clear limits.
Based on analysis of 3 sections of legislative text.
Directs the President to use IEEPA to block significant transactions with foreign producers of 5th-or-future-generation telecom tech that threaten U.S. national security, with exemptions and short waivers.
Introduced March 3, 2025 by Christina Houlahan · Last progress March 3, 2025
Requires the President, starting 90 days after enactment, to use authorities under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) to block and prohibit significant transactions involving foreign producers of fifth- or future-generation telecommunications technology that operate in ways the United States finds contrary to its national security. The text also expresses a nonbinding congressional view that untrusted foreign telecom vendors—especially those tied to authoritarian states—pose unacceptable risks and that economic tools should be used to promote secure networks. Limited humanitarian exceptions, an intelligence activity exemption, and short renewable national-security waivers are included; violations carry civil and criminal penalties.