Exclusive—Sen. Rick Scott & Rep. Andy Ogles: America’s Cybersecurity Cannot Be an Easy Target for Communist China May 20, 2026 Breitbart Sen. Rick Scott and Rep. Andy Ogles May 20, 2026 American-led innovation has built a digitally connected world that’s created enormous benefits for American families and businesses. For most American families, access to people and products from anywhere in the world comes as easily as reaching for the phone in our pocket. Now, imagine if tomorrow that access we’ve become familiar and comfortable with became our biggest threat. Think of a world in which the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) were able to launch a cyber-attack and target your power and water, block your bank accounts, or turn off your internet. That’s the reality America faces today and why we are fighting to protect American families and pass the Strengthening Cyber Resilience Against State-Sponsored Threats Act. The CCP understands the vulnerability of weak cybersecurity infrastructure. Communist China is constantly prodding U.S. security, looking for a way to undermine the American economy and disrupt our lives with CCP-backed groups of hackers known as “Volt Typhoon” and “Salt Typhoon.” The threats posed by CCP-back cyber-attacks are more real than many folks realize. In February 2024, U.S. government agencies revealed that Volt Typhoon had been burrowed into the IT environments of key critical infrastructure sectors like energy, water and wastewater systems, transportation systems, and communications for years. If a hospital is locked out of its systems, life support could fail and patients would die. An attack on our electrical grid could deny millions of families access to heat in the winter, lights would not turn on, and they wouldn’t be able to keep food in their refrigerator. If the CCP attacked our financial institutions, hackers could empty your bank account or delete all