Zhi Zhu 🕸️<p>Trump Is Changing the Rural Broadband Rules. Guess Who May Benefit?</p><p>Biden threw billions at rural broadband, but the process was slow as molasses. Trump may speed it up—while lining the pockets of his co-president.<br><a href="https://newrepublic.com/article/193127/trump-rural-broadband-rules-musk" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">newrepublic.com/article/193127</span><span class="invisible">/trump-rural-broadband-rules-musk</span></a></p><p>"the <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Broadband" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Broadband</span></a> Equity, Access, & Deployment Program, or BEAD...$42.5 billion... Now that the <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> admn has its hands on BEAD, it may take a lot of that <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/money" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>money</span></a> —as much as half of it, or even more—and give it to <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/ElonMusk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ElonMusk</span></a>"</p><p><a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Corruption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Corruption</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/News" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>News</span></a></p>