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The FCC gave $881 million back to the U.S. Treasury instead of using it to fund low-income broadband programs that could have assisted students and families, particularly in rural areas where voters helped to elect Trump.

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Broadband access is recognized as a Social Determinant of Health (SDoH), along with food and shelter. This is an extremely short-sighted action -- like so many of President Trump's Administration -- that will impact education and healthcare costs for underserved communities.

I’ve a relative whose life changed when the Biden administration delivered broadband to his (extremely Republican) region of the countryside. How can these thugs be so petty, so cruelly indifferent?