US EditionTrump kills broadband grants, calls digital equity program “racist and illegal”
- President Donald Trump announced on Thursday that he is ending the Digital Equity Act and its related broadband grant program immediately.
- Trump attacked the program as racist and unconstitutional despite the Act being part of Biden's bipartisan $1 trillion infrastructure law designed to improve high-speed internet access.
- Senator Patty Murray authored the Digital Equity Act, which allocates $2.75 billion through federal grant programs to support states and territories in improving digital access for veterans, older adults, people with disabilities, rural residents, and minority populations.
- Trump claimed on social media, "No more woke handouts based on race," and said he agreed with Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick that the Act is "totally UNCONSTITUTIONAL," despite the law barring discrimination based on race or other factors.
- The suspension of grants, many appropriated by Congress and partially disbursed to red and rural states, is likely to face legal challenges and may deepen the digital divide for affected communities.
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Trump Kills Biden ‘Internet For All’ Program: ‘No More Woke Handouts’
President Donald Trump has officially shut down a major Biden-era program that aimed to expand internet access across the country, calling it a “woke handout” and “illegal.” In a Truth Social post Thursday, Trump announced he’s terminating the Digital Equity Act, a $2.75 billion initiative passed under then-President Joe Biden as part of the 2021 infrastructure bill. The program was designed to bring high-speed internet and digital tools to unde…
Trump Wants To End High-Speed Internet Program He Falsely Calls 'Woke Handouts Based On Race'
Source: The Washington Post / Getty Look, we didn’t need any more evidence that President Donald Trump’s anti-DEI agenda is really just white supremacy reinforcement disguised as a fight against anti-white discrimination, but the commander-in-segregation-policies has just declared that high-speed internet is “racist,” presumably against white people. Actually, according to the New York Times, it’s a law signed by President Joe Biden that aimed a…
Trump's new threat 'will keep the internet out of reach for millions': nonpartisan group
Free Press Action Co-CEO Craig Aaron is clapping back at President Donald Trump's claim that the Digital Equity Act is “UNCONSTITUTIONAL” and “RACIST.”“The Trump administration is spiking plans states spent years developing to help their own residents, in favor of trying to redirect billions into El...
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