Biden's $43M Project to Expand Internet Access Hasn't Connected a Single Person in Three YearsIf there’s one thing Democrats are really, really good at, it’s spending millions upon millions of taxpayer dollars and getting exactly zero results. So perhaps this next story will come as no surprise.
It should, however, absolutely disgust and enrage you.
The Biden administration’s nearly $43 million plan to expand internet access in rural areas across the United States - a plan that was launched three years ago under the 2021 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, I might add - has yet to connect a single, solitary person to broadband.
The Washington Times reports:
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.
The report notes the hang-ups are largely due to federal red tape including climate mandates, rules for hiring union workers, and a “requirement that eligible companies prioritize the employment of ‘justice-impacted’ people with criminal records to install broadband equipment.”
Leave it to leftists to get in their own stupid way.
So now let me see if I’m understanding this one correctly: the Biden administration waxed poetic about wanting to expand internet access to all the poor country folk in the hollers and hills, to the tune of tens of millions of tax dollars, likely as a way to garner political support from rural Americans in predominantly red strongholds. But instead of making good on their promise, Democrats have been stymied by their own onerous rules and regulations, like making sure we don’t disturb the prairie chickens while hiring enough convicts to lay the wiring..............
https://www.mrctv.org/blog/brittany-m-hughes/bidens-43m-project-expand-internet-access-hasnt-connected-single-person
