trump lies CONSTANTLY. literally every day he is caught in a lie. the word for him is not honest, it’s unfiltered. at some point we’ll know the difference, right? right?????
No wonder this stupid asshole’s museum was so undervisited that her hometown literally demolished it and put a strip mine in its place.
A new rule championed by Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai would limit internet and phone access for millions of low-income and elderly Americans.
Pai’s proposed changes to the Lifeline program, which currently serves 12 million Americans by providing subsidized phone and internet service, would cut service to about 70 percent, or 8 million, of them. Many of these recipients live in Puerto Rico and rely on Lifeline for assistance as they recover from Hurricane Irma.
Last week, a group of Democratic Senators including Kamala Harris, Bernie Sanders, Kirsten Gillibrand, Jeff Merkley, Edward J. Markey, Ron Wyden, Richard Blumenthal, Elizabeth Warren, Dick Durbin and Cory Booker wrote a letter to the FCC chairman questioning his motives.
“The Lifeline program is essential for millions of Americans who rely on subsidized internet access to find jobs, schedule doctor’s appointments, complete their school assignments, interface with the government, and remain connected in a digital economy,” they wrote. “The program helps Americans—including disproportionate numbers of families with children, veterans and people of color—survive.”
The letter also questioned the economic reasoning for the program change. “It is unclear why the FCC would spend billions of dollars to expand access to broadband while at the same time make Lifeline less accessible to those who need it most,” it read.
The Lifeline program is a 33-year-old bipartisan program started under President Ronald Reagan and bolstered by Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama. Low-income Americans are granted a monthly household subsidy of $9.25 to help pay for internet and phone service. Changes proposed by Pai would prevent telecom companies that don’t provide their own infrastructure, like AT&T or Sprint, from offering the subsidized plans. About 70 percent of users are on a plan that doesn’t use its own infrastructure. The Lifeline service is paid for through special service fees on phone bills.
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In Puerto Rico, where 550,000 people, or about 17 percent of the total population, use the Lifeline program, communities are much more isolated and poverty is much more extreme than it is in the continental United States, according to the Census Bureau. “These are rural communities two hours away from any real health care,” he said. “We’re not talking about giving these people unlimited texting. This isn’t a luxury. This is something people use to take care of their basic needs.”
the FBI raided donald trump’s lawyer’s office today and seized evidence about him paying hush money to a porn star and i just sometimes need to step back and think of how the republicans would have literally exploded if a single word of that happened during the obama administration
The next time you hear a Republican say #WalkUpNotOut and try to tell people that gun violence could be avoided if only the victims were nicer to the racist loner who shot them, please remember how mean and ugly Republicans are being to the teenage survivors of a mass shooting.
Republicans do not care about the victims of gun violence. Republicans mock and harass poor people, Black people, LGBTQ people, immigrants, disabled people, Native Americans, women, Muslims, Jewish people, and any intersection of those marginalized groups. Now we can add “teen survivors of mass school shooting” to the list. Republicans are the poster child for bullying people.
Please vote in the 2018 midterm elections. Kick out all Republicans.
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