Source: Gabiella Munoz, WASHINGTON POST, 4/30/20


Democrats on Thursday announced an $86 billion plan to expand the nation’s broadband infrastructure as Democrats and Republicans work to sort out priorities for a phase four coronavirus package. Party leaders said some of the funds could be attached to the phase four coronavirus package. “This broadband deployment is very, very necessary,” said Majority Whip James E. Clyburn, South Carolina Democrat. “[It was] made even more necessary by this current pandemic we are trying to respond to.”

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