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Czar Kam did not only take the lead on border control . She was also tasked by Clueless Joe to take the point on an ambitious initiative to bring 5 G broad band to the far corners of the nation. She is the ‘broadband czar’ .

This Joe announced during his first State of the Union Address. ”This is going to help our kids and our businesses succeed in the 21st-century economy,”
Remarks by President Biden in Address to a Joint Session of Congress | The White House

He made a show of asking her to head the project and she replied “of course “.

She went right to work lobbying Congress for the funds. Congress delivered them as part of the Green New Steal to the tune of $42.5 billion
Here’s how much each state will get in the $42.5 billion broadband infrastructure plan | CNN Business

Her project was named the ‘Broadband Equity Access and Deployment Program ‘(BEAD).
So how many households have been hooked up under the program ? Nada Zippo .

Brendan Carr is on the FCC . He tweeted this on X

Brendan Carr on X: "In 2021, the Biden Administration got $42.45 billion from Congress to deploy high-speed Internet to millions of Americans. 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." / X

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.
While the Biden Admin's $42.45B plan from 2021 has not resulted in even a single shovel's worth of dirt being turned, the government in 2022 revoked an award to Starlink that would have delivered high-speed Internet to 642K rural locations
The Biden Admin's failure to turn even a single shovel's worth of dirt with this $42.45B is not just predictable, it was predicted. In 2022, Senators warned that Biden's Byzantine process, excessive bureaucracy, & partisan policies would "delay connecting unserved... Americans"

The industry sees it for what it is ;just another failure by Joe and Kam

‘Alarm And Urgency’: Broadband Companies Say Biden’s Massive Internet Program May Be Headed For Failure | The Daily Caller


Meanwhile Kam has pivoted to woke agendas like ‘Digital Equity ‘

Digital Equity Act Programs | Internet for All

State Digital Equity Capacity Grant Program | National Telecommunications and Information Administration (ntia.gov)

August 11 will mark 1,000 days since Congress delivered the funds.

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So is broadband available across the fruited plains ? Kam is the broadband czar . It is one of the few tasks Clueless Joe handed her .

Brendon Carr ;an FCC Commissioner thinks the whole program as "gone off the rails " with not even one person connected in over a thousand days . All they have accomplished is adding red tape that slows down the program at the local levels .
It has become a $42 billion boondoggle .

User Clip: 'Kamala Harris’ 42 Billion dollar initiative to deliver broadband services to rural America is the slowest moving program in recent history and has yet to connect even one person or one home to the internet' | C-SPAN.org

The problem here lies squarely with the Biden-Harris Administration’s implementation. Indeed, a state broadband official that has been trying to navigate Vice President Harris’s $42 billion program, so that her state can start connecting communities, recently shared her experience with the initiative. Testifying earlier this month before the House Energy and Commerce Committee, she described “a chaotic implementation environment,” “dysfunction,” and “delays.”9 The Biden-Harris Administration, she added, “has provided either no guidance, guidance given too late, or guidance changing midstream.”10 Continuing, she testified that the Biden-Harris Administration is “slowing states down and second-guessing good-faith efforts.”11 Indeed, state broadband officials across the country have sounded the alarm about the Administration’s rollout of BEAD. One director of a state broadband office described BEAD as “the most burdensome federal program” she has ever managed.12 Similarly, a former state broadband official that worked on BEAD recently wrote about the Biden-Harris Administration pursuing policies beyond what Congress authorized as a key factor in the delays...... ...

So what has the Biden-Harris Administration been doing over the last 1,039 days instead of focusing on connecting Americans? It has been layering on red tape and advancing a wish list of progressive policy goals that may cater to favored political constituencies, but undermine the goal of connecting all Americans.15 The $42 billion program being led by Vice President Harris is being used to pursue a climate change agenda, DEI requirements, technology biases, price controls, preferences for government-run networks, and rules that will undoubtedly lead to wasteful overbuilding. All of this will leave rural and other unconnected communities behind. And the Biden-Harris Administration has chosen to head down this path despite Congress expressly prohibiting the Administration from doing much of this partisan improvising.

Carr-Testimony.pdf (house.gov)