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Friday, April 04, 2025
The fate of an $8 billion program that funds internet services in rural areas and schools is now formally before the Supreme Court, which seemed inclined to uphold its constitutionality after arguments Wednesday.
President Donald Trump has wasted little time making news on the trade front. He told reporters Monday night he expects to impose 25% tariffs on Canada and Mexico a week from Saturday.
The Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether the funding mechanism for the Federal Communications Commission’s Universal Service Fund is unconstitutional.
House Ag Committee Chairman Glenn “GT” Thompson is ready to move another extension of the 2018 farm bill, acknowledging to reporters Monday evening that lawmakers are unlikely to consider the measure in the lame duck session. “We’re prepared for an extension,” Thompson said.
The Federal Communications Commission faces a murky path forward in its efforts to bolster phone and internet access in rural America after a federal appeals court deemed the funding source for a number of its connectivity programs unconstitutional.
The way fees are collected from telecommunications companies for the Universal Service Fund, which defrays the cost of phone and internet access in rural areas, is unconstitutional, a federal appeals court has ruled.
The National Telecommunications and Information Administration is working its way through state-level proposals that seek grants from a $42.45 billion program aimed at building out broadband networks in underserved areas.
The Federal Communications Commission is upping its benchmark for high-speed fixed broadband to download speeds of 100 megabits per second and upload speeds of 20 megabits per second, the first major change the standard has seen since 2015.
USDA is releasing a final rule today under the Packers and Stockyards Act to protect meat and poultry producers from discrimination and retaliation by packers, swine dealers and live poultry dealers.
