In short Republicans are going to screw over 23 million poor Americans because they don’t want Democrats getting political credit for helping them during an election season. And because our press is generally broken and afraid of calling a duck a duck, this is going to get dressed up as a genuine concern about wasteful spending by a party that’s long been a huge fan of no shortage of wasteful spending.
Broadband is infrastructure anyway, and the way we’re doing it now, letting telecoms ration it out while we dump heaps of cash into their laps and beg them to expand their network, is screwy as fuck.