We can't close that divide without USF, which is why the FCC has done a lot of work since 2011 to update USF and refocus it on deploying broadband.
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Schatz argues that USF is essential for closing the broadband access gap.
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These are not bureaucratic mix-ups. Every day this money doesn't get to where it's supposed to go; every contribution, worth hundreds of millions, if not billions of dollars, is delayed, people go hungry. People get sick. People die.
We are the good guys. And when a batch of aid – medicine or communications infrastructure or food – arrives with that little patch with the United States of America on it, people go, 'Help is on the way. The good guys are here.'
These are things in statutory law. This is not the Ford Foundation where they say, 'Well, we've changed our grant criteria.' This is a matter of federal law, and they have to follow it.
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