October 15 2024
Kamala Harris recently admitted, "In America, it takes too long and costs too much to build." She's right—but it's her progressive policies that are causing the delays and driving up costs.
In an editorial in the Wall Street Journal, Brendan Carr, the Senior Republican on the Federal Communications Commission, slammed Kamala's failed leadership that has spent $42 BILLION to expand broadband access that has yet to successfully connect a SINGLE home or business in nearly three years after the program's launch.
Political priorities, regulatory hurdles, DEI mandates, and climate initiatives have caused dysfunction and delays that have taken priority over the program's goals and results. Leaving underserved and rural communities hanging in the balance.
ICYMI: Kamala Harris’s Rural Broadband Flop
- “In 2021 she [Harris] agreed to lead the administration’s $42 billion plan for expanding high-speed internet to millions of Americans. That year, she tweeted that “we can bring broadband to rural America today.” Today, nearly three years after Congress passed the infrastructure bill that created the program, not one home or business has been connected through it.”
- “The Biden-Harris administration recently confirmed that construction projects won’t begin until next year at the earliest, and in many cases not until 2026.”
- “Instead of focusing on delivering broadband to unserved areas, the administration has used the program to advance a wish list of political goals.”
- “Testifying before a congressional oversight committee, one state government official described“a chaotic implementation environment” marked by “dysfunction” and “delays.” The administration, she said, “has provided either no guidance, guidance given too late, or guidance changing midstream.’”
- “Associations representing broadband builders in states across the U.S. are sounding the alarm, warning that the “program will fail” absent a course correction.
- It isn’t too late to get rid of the program’s DEI requirements, price controls, technology biases and preferences for government-run networks. Stripping away those regulations would unleash private-sector innovation and save taxpayer dollars.”
- “The status quo is unacceptable. Under Biden-Harris policies, it takes too long and it costs too much to build broadband in America.”