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Title: Trump To End Biden-Era High-Speed Internet Program

Link: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/05/09/0059...

President Trump on Thursday attacked a law signed by President Joe Biden
aimed at expanding high-speed internet access, calling the effort "racist"
and "totally unconstitutional" and threatening to end it "immediately." The
New York TimesL: Mr. Trump's statement was one of the starkest examples yet
of his slash-and-burn approach to dismantling the legacy of his immediate
predecessor in this term in office. The Digital Equity Act, a little-known
effort to improve high-speed internet access in communities with poor access,
was tucked into the $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill that Mr. Biden
signed into law early in his presidency. The act was written to help many
different groups, including veterans, older people and disabled and rural
communities. But Mr. Trump, using the incendiary language that has been a
trademark of his political career, denounced the law on Thursday for also
seeking to improve internet access for ethnic and racial minorities, raging
in a social media post that it amounted to providing "woke handouts based on
race."

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