Washington: US Senator Ted Cruz, the Republican who leads oversight of the Federal Communications Commission, joined Democrats in criticising FCC chair Brendan Carr’s recent threats against Disney and local broadcasters for airing Jimmy Kimmel Live!

The conservative senator from Texas, one of the most powerful Republicans in Congress, said Carr’s threat to fine broadcasters or pull their licences over the content of their shows was dangerous.

“I got to say that’s right out of Goodfellas ,” Cruz said on Friday, Washington time, evoking the Martin Scorsese gangster movie.

“That’s right out of a mafioso coming into a bar going, ‘Nice bar you have here. It would be a shame if something happened to it’.”

The senator’s remarks are a rare example of a prominent member of President Donald

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