Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr closed the former transport secretary Pete Buttigieg for claiming Trump administration “incompetence” brings Americans “in danger”, pointing to a multi-billion dollar project under the Biden administration that he said he did not deliver results.
“You worked for an administration that received $ 42 billion to connect millions of Americans with the internet,” Carr in an X post on Saturday respond to Buttigieg. “1,163 days later, that manager went out without even connecting 1 person and without even turning 1 shovel.”
“If we need expertise in incompetence, it will reach,” he added, accompanied by the EMOJI peace signal.
Carr reacted to a message bendigieg posted on Friday and who has become the Ministry of Government Efficiency, which has become a common target of Democrats, because Elon Musk and the Doge team work through federal government agencies in her search for the extinguishing of government fraud and too high spending .
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“Incompetence in Washington endangers every American, regardless of how you voted. No one should be happy that the doge team – the same people who have randomly published classified American security information today – wants access to your bank account and social security, On X on Friday, referring to accusations that DOGE classified information has posted on his website, which the White House has refuted.
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The Biden Administration in 2021 approved a provision of $ 42.5 billion in the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act that was aimed at a program that was intended to deliver the internet to disadvantaged and rural areas of the nation. Four years later, however, the program did not connect users to the internet, the Washington Policy Center found in a report last year.
Former President Biden, FCC chairman Brendan Carr and former transport secretary Pete Buttigieg. (Getty Images)
States had to submit plans to the federal government by 2023 with regard to the investment and deployment of the internet services. Former President Joe Biden, On the States who submitted their plans, they celebrated the internet initiative as comparable to former President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s 1936 Rural Electification Act, which brought national electricity to Huizen.
“What we do is, as I said, no different than what Franklin Delano Roosevelt did when he brought electricity to almost every American house and farm to our nation. Today Kamala and I make an equally historical investment to connect everyone in America – Everyone in America to fast internet through and affordably fast internet-op 2030, “said Biden in the White House in June 2023.
Transport secretary Pete Buttigieg speaks during a press conference on 28 June 2021 in New York City. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty images) (Michael M. Santiago/Getty images)
Carr often has problems with the $ 42.5 billion program, including quoting in X reports earlier The election of President Donald Trump Win in November and the president then appoints the Republican FCC commissioner as chairman of the government agency.
“In 2021, the BIDEN administration received $ 42.45 billion from the congress to use high-speed internet among millions of Americans,” ” wrote on x In June “years later it has not even connected 1 person with those funds. In fact, it now says that no construction projects will even start on the first of 2025.”
President Joe Biden talks about his administration on December 10, 2024. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
In June, CARR explained that although the funds were assigned to states to provide internet services through the program, the Biden administration was innocent due to the lack of progress.
“There is no doubt that the 2021 law has set a process, but the BIDEN administration then decided to lay a Byzantine extra set of hoops that states must go through before the administration will approve them to actually get and start and start Start completing the builds, “Carr told Fox Business in an interview in June.
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He added that although some high-speed internet projects had connected people during the BIDEN administration, none was financed by the allocation of $ 42.5 billion of broadband equality, access and implementation program.
Breck Dumas from Fox News Digital has contributed to this report.
