President Biden is scheduled to travel to North Carolina on Thursday to announce $82 million in new investments to connect homes and businesses in the state to high-speed internet.
He and Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper will travel to the battleground state's Raleigh-Durham area to make the announcement. The funding comes from Biden's 2021 coronavirus relief package, the American Rescue Plan, which aims to connect 16,000 more homes and businesses in North Carolina. ing.
The investment will also create manufacturing and construction jobs to produce “American-made fiber optic cables that will build the nation's internet infrastructure,” according to a White House fact sheet.
This investment will also help North Carolinians save money on their monthly internet bills, according to the fact sheet. The White House aims to help 885,000 North Carolina households, or about 1 in 5 households, save up to $30 on their monthly internet bills.
Biden is scheduled to give a speech to discuss his goal of connecting more than 300,000 more homes and businesses to high-speed internet by the end of 2026, using a total of $1 billion from the American Rescue Plan. The national goal is to connect every American to high-speed internet by 2030.
Biden's comments will emphasize his so-called Bidennomics agenda, his economic plan to build the economy from the bottom up and the middle out.
Former President Trump defeated Biden in North Carolina in 2020. Trump won the state in the 2016 election, defeating former Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. Former President Barack Obama won North Carolina in 2008, but lost in 2012.
The Biden campaign has recently stepped up its efforts in North Carolina, as well as other battleground states, and Vice President Harris visited the state last week to discuss combating gun violence.
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