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| Biden Has Not Connected One Person with High-Speed Internet with $42.5 Billion from Infrastructure Bill |
| 2024-06-16 |
| [Breitbart] FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr on Friday wrote that President Joe Biden has not connected one American with high-speed internet with $42.5 billion in funding from the so-called bipartisan infrastructure bill. “In 2021, the Biden Administration got $42.45 billion from Congress to deploy high-speed Internet to millions of Americans. Years later, it has not connected even 1 person with those funds. In fact, it now says that no construction projects will even start until 2025 at earliest,” the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) commissioner wrote. “Meanwhile, the Biden Admin has been layering a partisan political agenda on top of this $42.45B program – a liberal wish list that has nothing to do with connecting Americans. Climate change mandates, tech biases, DEI requirements, favoring government-run networks + more,” he continued. Carr is specifically slamming the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) program, which allocated $42.45 billion to support broadband infrastructure and adoption. The program was established by the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), otherwise known as the so-called bipartisan infrastructure bill. The bill had no conservative victories and had many leftist carveouts, as Breitbart News detailed. Congress passed the infrastructure bill in 2021, which would mean that the BEAD program has had little success in its two years since Biden passed the bill. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg also struggled to explain why Biden has only built “seven or eight” electric vehicle charging stations, which the funding also came from the IIJA. Related: Brendan Carr 04/26/2024 FCC Votes to Reinstate Net Neutrality Brendan Carr 02/28/2021 Democrats' sneak attack on the free press Brendan Carr 07/30/2020 Big Tech Floods House Judiciary with Cash as Committee Intensifies Antitrust Review Related: Bipartisan infrastructure bill: 2024-02-26 Gavin Newsom calls Biden's age a ‘gift' rather than a liability Bipartisan infrastructure bill: 2022-08-04 Even Biden's Favorite Economist Says Inflation Reduction Act Won't Reduce Inflation Bipartisan infrastructure bill: 2022-06-04 Biden tucked $500million bid to build more electric vehicles into the Ukraine aid bill by giving more funds to look for critical battery minerals |
| Posted by:Skidmark |
| #6 It never was anything but graft. They can see the end coming, and are cashing out. |
| Posted by: ed in texas 2024-06-16 11:36 |
| #5 Dems and their RINO enablers cut the $42B up and ate it like a Stoeffer’s lasagna. Now the American people are discovering that the meaty filling was us. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2024-06-16 08:20 |
| #4 As we already know, when DC passes $$$$ around to corporations, there is usually a foot in the door (tap) point to monitor customers. eg. ISP's, Credit Cards purchases, and etc. Also, ever wonder how much bandwidth and speed is taken running the US Internet traffic through Mae-West and Mae-east, DCSNet for snooping _ _ _ agenices? |
| Posted by: NN2N1 2024-06-16 08:09 |
| #3 42 Billion dollar slush fund to Donk constituents and supporters, aka looting of the treasury. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2024-06-16 07:03 |
| #2 isn't the whole problem If it ever was a problem and not just a $43B Demo sound bite. A lot like EV mandates or politically negotiated border controls. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2024-06-16 05:44 |
| #1 isn't the whole problem of lack of internet access going away soon now that SpaceX will soon have 10k satellites and will be able to serve essentially anyone outside of the polar regions |
| Posted by: Lord Garth 2024-06-16 00:13 |