{"id":36217,"date":"2025-03-17T15:41:25","date_gmt":"2025-03-17T15:41:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/17\/trump-administration-poised-to-strand-rural-america-with-worse-internet-to-help-musk-official-warns\/"},"modified":"2025-03-17T15:41:25","modified_gmt":"2025-03-17T15:41:25","slug":"trump-administration-poised-to-strand-rural-america-with-worse-internet-to-help-musk-official-warns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/17\/trump-administration-poised-to-strand-rural-america-with-worse-internet-to-help-musk-official-warns\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump administration poised to \u2018strand rural America with worse internet\u2019 to help Musk, official warns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US official urges stop to plan to re-evaluate Biden program to connect communities to high-speed internet, which will likely benefit Starlink<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2025\/mar\/17\/donald-trump-kennedy-center-jd-vance-tariffs-ukraine-immigration-us-politics-live-news\">US politics live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Small town USA is facing a \u201csignificant risk\u201d that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/trump-administration\">Trump administration<\/a> is going to abandon key elements of a $42.45bn Biden-era plan to connect rural communities to high-speed internet so that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/elon-musk\">Elon Musk<\/a> can get even richer, a top departing commerce department official warned in an email.<\/p>\n<p>Evan Feinman, who headed up the so-called Bead program for the last three years, urged governors across the country to lobby their congressional delations in Washington to stop the Trump administration from implementing plans he said could have \u201cdeeply negative outcomes\u201d for American homes and businesses.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/mar\/17\/trump-musk-starlink-rural-internet\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US official urges stop to plan to re-evaluate Biden program to connect communities to high-speed internet, which will likely benefit Starlink US politics live \u2013 latest updates Small town USA is facing a \u201csignificant risk\u201d that the Trump administration is going to abandon key elements of a $42.45bn Biden-era plan to connect rural communities to &#8230; <a title=\"Trump administration poised to \u2018strand rural America with worse internet\u2019 to help Musk, official warns\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/17\/trump-administration-poised-to-strand-rural-america-with-worse-internet-to-help-musk-official-warns\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Trump administration poised to \u2018strand rural America with worse internet\u2019 to help Musk, official warns\">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-36217","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\/36217","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=36217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}