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Tom Wheeler: “This self-serving economics manipulation has been used by the Trump FCC like a drunk uses a lamppost—to lean against, to…”

On the recordFebruary 6, 2019
This self-serving economics manipulation has been used by the Trump FCC like a drunk uses a lamppost—to lean against, to support the unsupportable.
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Tom Wheeler

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Wheeler criticized the FCC's claims about broadband investment post-repeal.

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