Source: Emily Birnbaum, THE HILL, 2/26/20


A group of bipartisan senators is urging the Department of Agriculture (USDA) to open up its rural broadband funding program to more states suffering from a lack of Internet connectivity.  In a Wednesday letter to USDA Secretary Sonny Perdue, the senators, led by Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), accused the agriculture agency of placing arbitrary limitations around which rural areas are eligible to receive some of the USDA's $500 million rural broadband fund, called ReConnect. 

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