{"id":35134,"date":"2025-03-05T15:56:43","date_gmt":"2025-03-05T15:56:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/05\/white-house-to-overhaul-42-5bn-biden-era-internet-plan-likely-to-elon-musks-advantage\/"},"modified":"2025-03-05T15:56:43","modified_gmt":"2025-03-05T15:56:43","slug":"white-house-to-overhaul-42-5bn-biden-era-internet-plan-likely-to-elon-musks-advantage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/05\/white-house-to-overhaul-42-5bn-biden-era-internet-plan-likely-to-elon-musks-advantage\/","title":{"rendered":"White House to overhaul $42.5bn Biden-era internet plan \u2013 likely to Elon Musk\u2019s advantage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Billionaire cost-cutter\u2019s Starlink service the likely beneficiary of Trump plan to alter rural internet program<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2025\/mar\/05\/donald-trump-congress-speech-federal-workers-ukraine-tariffs-us-politics-news-live\">US politics live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/trump-administration\">Trump administration<\/a> is preparing to overhaul a $42.5bn Biden-era program designed to connect tens of millions of rural Americans to reliable and affordable high-speed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/internet\">internet<\/a>, in a move that is expected to benefit billionaire <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/elon-musk\">Elon Musk<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Howard Lutnick, the commerce department secretary who has oversight of the federal program, recently told senior officials inside the department that he wants to make significant changes to the federal program, sources with knowledge of the matter told the Guardian.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/mar\/05\/trump-musk-rural-internet-starlink\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Billionaire cost-cutter\u2019s Starlink service the likely beneficiary of Trump plan to alter rural internet program US politics live \u2013 latest updates The Trump administration is preparing to overhaul a $42.5bn Biden-era program designed to connect tens of millions of rural Americans to reliable and affordable high-speed internet, in a move that is expected to benefit &#8230; <a title=\"White House to overhaul $42.5bn Biden-era internet plan \u2013 likely to Elon Musk\u2019s advantage\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/05\/white-house-to-overhaul-42-5bn-biden-era-internet-plan-likely-to-elon-musks-advantage\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about White House to overhaul $42.5bn Biden-era internet plan \u2013 likely to Elon Musk\u2019s advantage\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}