will be unsurprised to learn that Team Biden’s uselessness extends to another boondoggle promised three years ago: high speed internet access for rural Americans.
“In 2021, the Biden Administration got $42.45 billion from Congress to deploy high-speed Internet to millions of Americans,” GOP-appointed Commissioner Brendan Carr wrote on X last week. “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.”
. . . . Carr said the program has been mired in bureaucratic delay, and he accused the administration of “sitting on applications from states that are attempting to move forward.” He said progress is even moving in the opposite direction in many cases. Residents in rural America are eager to access high-speed internet under a $42.5 billion federal modernization program, but not a single home or business has been connected to new broadband networks nearly three years after President Biden signed the funding into law, and no project will break ground until sometime next year.