The Justice Department is backing a Federal Communications Commission plan to block Huawei and ZTE from receiving federal money to help build U.S. broadband infrastructure.

“At this critical moment, while the world decides where to place its trust, we should not signal that Huawei and ZTE are anything other than a threat to our collective security,” Attorney General William Barr wrote in a letter to FCC Chairman Ajit Pai on Wednesday.

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