Farm Bill hearing frustration on broadband expansion

The ranking member of the House Ag Committee says Washington bureaucracy is disrupting the deployment of rural broadband to farmers and ranchers.

Glenn “GT” Thompson of Pennsylvania says bipartisan legislation has stalled in the House and what was passed in the infrastructure bill isn’t enough. “Two billion dollars to USDA, with inflationary costs the way they are, that’s not going to go very far.  We need to bridge the digital divide in rural America.”

He says broadband is a necessity for producers.

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