Jessica Rosenworcel: “This one-time effort developed during the early days of the pandemic was designed to assist students and library patrons…”

I strongly support identifying a way to fund the Affordable Connectivity Program into the future to help more families get and stay connected to the high-speed Internet they need to participate in modern life.

I think that if we choose to take this equipment out of our networks and fully fund its replacement costs, we have to go tell everyone around the world that we chose to do that.

We need an additional $3.08 billion to fully take that equipment out securely.

I have developed something called the Broadband Funding Map using $10 million in direct appropriations set aside in the IIJA.