Joe Biden claimed that he would bring WiFi to the rural reaches of the United States and so far he has spent $42 billion of your tax dollars to do it. Yet, in three years, he has no connected a SINGLE rural customer to the Internet.
GOP-appointed Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Commissioner Brendan Carr put Biden on blast for the wasteful folly.
“In 2021, the Biden Administration got $42.45 billion from Congress to deploy high-speed Internet to millions of Americans,” 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.”
Meanwhile, the Biden Admin has been layering a partisan political agenda on top of this $42.45B program – a liberal wish list that has nothing to do with connecting Americans.
Climate change mandates, tech biases, DEI requirements, favoring government-run networks + more.
— Brendan Carr (@BrendanCarrFCC) June 14, 2024
Carr was not the only one to ridicule Biden for this partisan waste.
Starlink founder and entrepreneur Elon Musk also blasted Biden for this monumentally wasteful and failed program.
“This government program is an outrageous waste of taxpayer money and is utterly failing to serve people in need,” wrote Musk on X.
This government program is an outrageous waste of taxpayer money and is utterly failing to serve people in need https://t.co/ImCur1CBCq
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 19, 2024
This waste of money is massive and needless.
There's no better representation of the service (failures) of Bob Casey and Joe Biden than:
1⃣Spending $42B on broadband and high speed internet
2⃣ Passing it with woke DEI/climate regs to keep libs happy
3⃣Taking HUGE victory laps
4⃣ 3 years later finding out it never happened pic.twitter.com/8GMGQrUz8f— Matt Whitlock (@mattdizwhitlock) June 20, 2024
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