Klein was describing what the Biden administration touted as one of their great achievements - the $40 billion broadband program that as of Dementia Joe’s exit had not launched a single project.
The Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) program falls under the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act that President Biden signed into law (the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law) in 2021.
- Klein spent several minutes walking an increasingly skeptical Stewart through the fourteen (yep, 14) step process the states must complete to access to rural broadband funding – before a single piece of hardware is even purchased.
- Klein steps Stewart through it and at almost the five-minute mark, he gets to: “Step 12: States must run a competitive sub-granting process.”
- To which Stewart exclaims: ““Oh my f–king God, that’s step 12… after all this has been done?”...
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