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Jon Stewart: “Billions of dollars are spent [on rural broadband]. No rural…”

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VP Kamala Harris on Defeat, Democrats & the Fight Ahead | The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart

Published | Video Starts at 41:13

It's bringing areas that don't have accessibility to the information systems that they will need to progress economically. And all those different things the government comes up with during Biden administration. A rural broadband investment plan. Billions of dollars are spent [on rural broadband]. No rural broadband is delivered. How do you change that program? Because I think the fundamental thing I'm getting at here is taxpayers don't feel like they get any value, that government has divorced money from value, and that problem fundamentally has to be fixed. (41:13–41:22)

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Asserts that despite billions spent, rural broadband was not delivered.

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