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If you gave Kamala Harris a fire hydrant, a fire hose, one of those hydrant wrenches, and instructions to fill the little blue kiddie pool in your front yard, she couldn’t get enough water in that thing to make a tissue damp. At least that’s my takeaway after FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr’s scorching congressional review of Harris’s oversight of Joe Biden’s multibillion-dollar plan to wire rural homes with high-speed internet.
“In2021,VicePresidentHarrisagreedtoleada$42billionefforttoexpandinternetaccesstomillions.It’sbeen1,039days,andnoonehasbeenconnected—nohomes,nobusinesses,notevenashovelintheground.”
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Carr’scongressionaltestimonycontinued:“Itgetsworse.Noinfrastructurewillbeginuntilnextyearattheearliest,andinmanycases,notuntil2026.Thismakesittheslowestfederalbroadbandprograminrecenthistory.”
Reason’sJoeLancasterreportedinJunethatredtape—surprise!—playsabigpartinwhyallthosebillionsarejustsittingthere,untapped:
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