"Farmers and ranchers and producers literally cannot get online," former Texas Rep. Beto O'Rourke declared while campaigning in Iowa this summer. "They can't go to Tinder to find a date tonight. ... I want to make sure every American has that opportunity."
Many of the White House hopefuls suggest they can succeed where Trump hasn’t and aren’t shy about rolling out big numbers. Warren and Buttigieg lead the pack, recently proposing, respectively, $85 billion and $80 billion in federal spending on broadband — initiatives that would include what both called a "public option" to support local government-run broadband networks that are now illegal in many states.
“While Democrats are picking numbers out of the sky, conveniently as they descend on Iowa, President Trump has been busy delivering real results,” said Trump campaign deputy press secretary Daniel Bucheli. “This administration has focused on expanding broadband infrastructure, including investments in the cutting-edge industries to include rural broadband.”
Yet none of the efforts comes close to the fresh billions the administration and lawmakers of both parties once hoped to direct to rural connectivity.last year that would have dedicated $50 billion for rural areas, as part of an overall plan intended to kick-start state spending on a range of transportation, economic and other needs with a bit of federal buy-in.
That has underscored the need to make connectivity a centerpiece of 2020 in a way it wasn't the last several election cycles, said Levin, who helped create a national broadband plan nine years ago.Sign Up
High speed Internet is in process just like the border wall; both take time to complete.
As if they will....please, many of them have only been to a rural area only because of the election. They could care less. Besides, there are those who prefer peace and quite to information overload.
Current admin has done lots to help close the digital divide. The FCC could further move the needle by adopting the 5G Plus Plan which would make $6B to $7B in private capital available to build out 100k fiber route miles to rural America where it's lacking over next 5 years.
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Democrats have time and again thumbed their nose at everything most folks from the country hold dear. This failure argument is weaker than my hillbilly family’s Internet connection, and Dems want to raise taxes, take their guns, and kill coal mining, etc. This dog won’t hunt.
I think high speed internet will help them become more informed. I just hope they stay away from all the misinformation and rhetoric on the internet. People will believe what they want to believe. 😕
Is this for real Liz . . The internet ? Really . . How about a kiss on the cheek . . You are a joke . . . . .
What have they done?
Obama promised the same thing and he has 8 years and nothing !!
Democrats. The party of promises made to forget.
Oh ha ha ha Yea that’s what is most important to us.
So offering a liar who is guilty of 'Cultural Appropriation ', and now is trying to pass herself off as an 'Evangelical ' being an advocate of late term abortion. Sen. Warren is a fraud and will not fool anybody.
They have been wanting to bring Internet to the country for years we have a failed internet provider here that started out government-funded it's at least 15 years old and they can't Supply internet to people here in the county a mile away from their tower.. just lost money. 😡😡
No one is bringing us internet. Comcast wants 16,000$ to run it a half a mile to my house.
Huh?
🤦🏼♀️
Let's see, what did he bring us? A booming deficit. NK's Rocket Man blasting rockets like fireworks. Russian intrusion into our election Russian investment in U.S. industry very destabilizing Kissing up to Saudi's following the murder of a reporter for our Washington Post. Etc.
I predict that the wifi project will get under way right before the election
Wow
Hahaha. Yeah that’s going to get them to not vote for him.
The GOP has no real desire to do that stuff. They just like cutting rural America's healthcare but comforting them by giving tax breaks to their churches
BernieSanders Here is some more good ideas. You probably already have this on your agenda, but in case you don't, you can now add it like everyone else does with your stances.
Oh for pity sake..😂😂😂 KAG
You are making the ASSUMPTION they WANT IT? Is there not an argument that it IS as much a CURSE as it is an asset? Just because Al Gore invented it doesn't make it GOOD. It is already so PROPAGANDIZED you can't believe 10% of what you read there. And the SCAMS are legion.
The Democrats killed the infrastructure.
Yeah in return vote for someone who will raise your taxes and grow govt?
Trump supporters are more concerned about Communist being in the House and Senate!
One of many broken promises. Hey, all you farmers that supported Trump, how do you like him now?
2 years in and no internet..go get satellite
No one remembers the billions in stimulus money for broadband for that purpose?
I use smoke signals. You mean Elizabeth Warren hasn’t been seeing them?
It’s still the morning but I’m willing to bet this will make the top 10 most dumbest tweets of the day...
Puh-Leeeeez!!! Collectively they’ve been in elected office for hundreds of years - and realDonaldTrump in his less than 3 yrs is to blame? 🙄
New_Narrative Her Policy is future of once great nation, that Trump has decimatied. With Racism Hate and Treason.
Trump 2020
PETTY! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
SpaceX and other programs will provide satellite internet all over the world in the near future. Trump has no clue how to do this. TrumpLies
*rump failed to deliver on EVERY campaign promise, they're just too willfully ignorant to see that truth.
this is a joke, right? they don't care even in they lose their homes for him. fanaticism has deep roots in the US.
Joke right?
Trump also promised to clean the swamp in D.C instead,he becomes one ☝️
Oh yeah! Wow! I would have voted for Hillary if I had known I might not get high speed internet! Hahahaha! This is the their best shot? Sad!
Rural people aren't on 24/7/365...
Oh please. That is number 67 on their priority list of serious issues. You clowns are so desperate to criticize Trump you have to scrape the bottom of the barrel to come up with this fantasy. Get in touch with real people.
Voting blue no matter who be the progressive democrats
Leftoids offer free everything to everybody. But leftoids suffer from an inbred learning disability. They think everyone is just as dumb as they are. What next? You gonna buy me ice cream with my own money?
Dem's need to get a new job the prez Job has been taken 2020!
Vote communist, get free WiFi. I’ll take a pass.
Demd just keep getting weirder.
It's only one.. of realDonaldTrump's many FAILURES. You'll only understand how destructive he and his Admin have been when he's gone...you need to VOTE people
Lol....really 😂
Lol this is a joke right
WRONG...NOT THIS RURAL SUPPORTER! Believe me..4th generation rancher will never vote for socialism!
Lol high speed internet or not voting for the internet we are voting a man because he keeps his promises because he's going after all of the pedophilia is bringing an end to the corruption that is plagued America for a long time Congress never does anything for the American ppl
Huawei is not your friend. Huawei is not your friend. Huawei is ewarren friend. Huawei is not your friend.
Promise not kept AGAIN
Like Clinton did to the people of upstate NY when she ran for Senate.
The old 'Chicken in every pot' promise...Works until you find out you have to buy the chicken, raise it, feed it, slaughter it then cook it!
They frequently vote against their own interests though, what’s to stop them this time?
That’s not going to cut it if they have to give up on WhiteSupremacy
lol
THATS AN EMPTY THREAT POCAHONTASSS!!!!
Yeahhhhhhhhhh problem is I'm old enough to remember President Obama making the same promises and.... well, here we still are.
You know they promise to bring the moon to your living room when they're campaigning.! And then you can't even get a soda pop from whoever wins.! That's why I like and better yet said , love VP Joe Biden. He wants to build on the positive things we already have. 8 yrs experience!
This premise is not true. Trump’s rural supporters reject internet access as harmful to their way of life. Internet is seen as a necessary evil for some but the exposure to ideas different than their’s isn’t worth it.
Trump wants Google to provide in rural US the same system being designed for China, with no displays of pro-democracy movements.. - Dems offer Trump's rural supporters reason to turn against him in 2020; failure to bring them hi-speed internet he promised
Trump has told the Internet providers to work on 5G & 6G systems but completing those upgrades takes time.
So instead of free Obama phones, the 2020 carrot to dangle is free Warren WiFi. More proof they got nothing, no platform to run on. We may witnessing the extinction of the DNC.
Awesome
He`s been busy w/China, the economy etc. Not to worry, he`ll get it done in his 2nd term.
for many years, Warren and his fellow party members have closed their mouths to young leaders. Results: Gazprom reports that Nord S 2 was built at73.6%and Turkish stream at 80% For 4 years,Ukraine have done 0 km for a pipe from Poland to Ukraine Рoroshenko are happy about it
Oh good Allah...the leftist progressive platform seems to be nothing more than promising to give away the most 'free' shit in exchange for votes and power.
That's one small item on the list of many reasons Republicans should consider voting Democrat for President and specifically for Warren How about economic stability and ending the war on American farmers so they don't have to rely on Republican Socialist welfare bailouts?
My internet could be faster, lets go ahead and hand the world over to the satanic pedovours in retaliation
Bring it on! My parents live in rural Texas and pay 50 bucks a month for 1 mbps internet. 😡
So sad, how true it is. More of the same from Donald the nightmare Trump. He's incapable. 😫
SenWarren:
Sure we’ll add that to the list why not.
The dems have totally failed in their jobs as Congress people . Their philosophy of life is steal from those who earn and give to ourselves and who will vote for me
Bernie's rural PLAN which won't be covered by t hff e media until days later so the can falsely claim he copied from the actual copier.
Is it free, too? These Democrats live in la la land.
do they pledge or support anything that doesn't involve finding billions of dollars to pay for it?
Expanding Ether opens the mind to the Freedom of Expression a Constant among the Twelve Foundations of Character [ the SACRED-SECRET of He/She....each bare after their Own Kind from the Crystal Sea of Transparency and Uprightness].
I wouldn’t advise listening or believing any promises by the dems.
yea right we see how the dems manage the cities and states they run
as a trumprecession looms, wasteful spending will gut the middle class taxpayer. we must run the right candidate against trump to avoid all these un-passable, pandering policy proposals... dont risk it* we've paid enough already* the middle class is always first to go*
Make it free as it should be through satellites.
What about free ice cream like our class President hopefuls back in high school
One thing these folks know how to do is spend taxpayer dollars... In fact they have it down to a science and art form
😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣🤣🤣We have our new internet from President Trump!!! SORRY LYING WARREN!!!
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