The Trump Administration Turned Biden’s Broadband Program into Significant Savings
Overhaul of the BEAD Program Announced The Trump administration is working to revamp the Biden-era BEAD program, aiming to cut costs by $21 billion while improving internet access across the United States. This information came from Ariel Ross, the assistant secretary of commerce for communications and information, during a speech at the Free State Foundation […]
Trump Administration Revamps Biden’s DEI Broadband Initiative that Reached No Households in Four Years
BEAD Program Policy Reforms Discussed at Hudson Institute Ariel Ross, who serves as the assistant secretary of commerce and leads the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, spoke this week at the Hudson Institute about reforming the often criticized Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) program. She mentioned that the program has been hindered by excessive […]
Failed Biden FCC nominee Gigi Sohn seeks to weaken Trump’s broadband changes.
Gigi Sohn Critiques Trump’s Reforms for Broadband Program Gigi Sohn, whose nomination to the FCC by the Democrats was viewed as too progressive, has voiced her discontent with the reforms made by the Trump administration regarding the $42.5 billion broadband program. She is reportedly collaborating with some Republican state officials to remove DEI (Diversity, Equity, […]
Leftists React Strongly to Trump Administration’s Focus on DEI Broadband Subsidies
Broadband Equity Program Faces Reforms Amid Congressional Action Democrats in Congress are currently focused on reforming the Biden administration’s broadband equity program, initiated as part of an ambitious $42.5 billion infrastructure bill aimed at enhancing high-speed internet access in rural and underserved areas. Similar to many initiatives under Biden, this broadband program, known as BEAD, […]
Trump’s broadband reform brings back competition and improves efficiency.
President Trump has consistently used a straightforward criterion for evaluating government programs: Does it work? If the answer is yes—even occasionally—he supports it. If not, he’ll either dismantle it or make significant changes. Intentions aside, what really matters is getting the job done. For many Americans, this approach is encouraging. However, it’s a challenge for […]
Jon Stewart Just Realized The Insanity Of Biden’s $40,000,000,000 Broadband Boondoggle And His Reaction Is Priceless
Comedy Central host John Stewart said he was “lost speech” on Thursday after New York Times columnist Ezra Cline outlined the lengthy process to implement the Biden administration's rural broadband proposal. The $40 billion broadband project had not launched a single project in three years since it was signed in 2021 by then-President Joe Biden. […]
John Thune, GOP Call to Unleash Broadband Development from Biden Regulations
Senate majority leader John Tune (R-SD) and Senate Republicans on Thursday called for the Trump administration to remove unrelated restrictions that have prevented the Trump administration from “waking up,” climate change, and the expansion of the broadband internet. Thune and Republicans on the Senate Commerce Committee wrote to Commerce Secretary Howard Rutnick as the Secretary […]
Kamala Harris Could Not Connect One American to Internet as ‘Broadband Czar’
Former President Donald Trump said Wednesday that Vice President Kamala Harris is a “broadband czar” who can't get a single American online. Trump said at a rally in Uniondale, New York. In 2021, Joe Biden gave Kamala Harris the mission to bring broadband to rural America. Rural America desperately needed broadband. And he gave her […]
Biden-Harris Broadband Push Connects Zero Americans Thanks to Progressive Mandates
At the behest of progressives, the Biden-Harris administration's broadband expansion has stalled, and 1,024 days after lawmakers passed the so-called infrastructure bill, not a single American is connected. The $1.2 trillion Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act includes a $42.5 billion fund to dramatically expand internet access across the U.S. Otherwise known as the Broadband Equity, […]
NY to require providers offer $15 broadband to low-income customers
New York state may move forward with legislation that would require internet service providers to offer deep discounts to low-income residents, a federal appeals court ruled Friday. The ruling by the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan overturns a 2021 lower court ruling that blocked the policy days before it took effect. The law […]