Several Republican lawmakers have called for a Federal Communications Commission (FCC) probe into Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl LX halftime performance, alleging that the content was indecent and featured explicit lyrics in violation of federal broadcast standards.
U.S. Rep. Randy Fine, a Florida Republican, sent a letter to FCC Chairman Brendan Carr on Feb. 10 requesting an immediate, full investigation into the National Football League (NFL) and NBCUniversal “for knowingly allowing indecent material to be broadcast nationwide during one of the most widely viewed television events in history.”
Today, I sent a letter to @BrendanCarrFCC, urging him to immediately open a full investigation into the @NFL and @NBCUniversal.
— Congressman Randy Fine (@RepFine) February 11, 2026
The woke garbage we witnessed on Super Bowl Sunday needs to be INVESTIGATED and put to an END.
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“It doesn’t matter if you say it in Spanish. Encouraging children to use cocaine in a live television broadcast is a crime,” Fine wrote. “It doesn’t matter who is singing. Broadcasting the F-word during the Superbowl is illegal. Both of these things happened during Sunday’s Super Bowl broadcast. The degenerates behind it must be held accountable.”
The lawmaker pointed to FCC regulations that prohibit “obscene content” from being broadcast on the radio or television at all times of the day and “indecent and profane content” between the hours of 6 a.m. and 10 p.m., “when there is a reasonable risk that children may be in the audience.”
The Puerto Rican singer Benito Antonio Martinez Ocasio, known as “Bad Bunny,” performed a 13-minute medley of his songs sung in Spanish. According to USA Today, the broadcast on NBC drew more than 128 million viewers. Turning Point USA broadcast an alternative “All-American Halftime Show,” featuring Kid Rock, Brantley Gilbert, Lee Brice, and Gabby Barrett. ESPN News reported that the Turning Point USA program drew roughly 5 million viewers during the halftime window.
On Feb. 9, Tennessee Rep. Andy Ogles, also a Republican, urged the House Energy and Commerce Committee to conduct a formal congressional inquiry into the NFL and NBC for their “prior knowledge, deliberate approval, and facilitation” of the show.
🚨The Apple Music Super Bowl LX Halftime Show was pure smut, brazenly aired on national television for every American family to witness. Children were forced to endure explicit displays of gay sexual acts, women gyrating provocatively, and Bad Bunny shamelessly grabbing his… pic.twitter.com/wcWTofhQQn
— Rep. Andy Ogles (@RepOgles) February 9, 2026
In a post on X, Ogles called the performance “pure smut,” saying children “were forced to endure explicit displays of gay sexual acts, women gyrating provocatively, and Bad Bunny shamelessly grabbing his crotch while dry-humping the air.” The lyrics, he said, “glorified sodomy and countless other unspeakable depravities.”
Republican Rep. Mark Alford of Missouri said on Feb. 10 that House Republicans are already investigating the performance and added the “information that has come out about the lyrics” is “very disturbing.”
“If it's true what was said on national television, we have a lot of questions for the entities that broadcast this,” he added, “and we'll be talking with [FCC Chairman] Brendan Carr.”
The calls for investigation follow broader criticism from President Donald Trump, who labeled the show a “‘slap in the face’ to our Country” and an “affront to the Greatness of America” in a Truth Social post shortly after it aired.
CatholicVote President and CEO Kelsey Reinhardt argued that the performance went far beyond acceptable broadcast standards and described it as “effectively ‘X-rated’” in moral terms.
“In his songs, women are reduced to props and prizes, degradation is reframed as empowerment, and misogyny is laundered through rhythm and repetition until it is supposed to feel harmless,” Reinhardt argued. “And this open contempt for women gets a pass only because of Bad Bunny’s ‘activism.’”
She highlighted the performance’s “provocative dancing, twerking, crotch-grabbing, and overtly sexualized choreography,” saying it did not “soften or contextualize the lyrics” but “translated them.” Reinhardt also questioned the NFL’s choice to elevate this “secular, hyper-sexualized” strain of reggaeton as representative of Hispanic culture, noting that it contrasts sharply with “the deeply Catholic traditions that continue to shape millions of Hispanic families in the United States.”
“We care about these moments not because we enjoy conflict, but because massive cultural events like the Super Bowl halftime show do not merely reflect culture: they actively create it. They catechize millions, whether we like it or not,” she said. “That’s why we cannot afford to ignore these attacks and pretend that it doesn’t matter.”