'No more woke handouts': Trump vows to kill law that helps veterans and minorities

MSN ^ | May 9 | David Edwards

[dennisw]

President Donald Trump announced this week that he would end the Digital Equity Act, which provided $2.5 billion in grants to ensure everyone had equal access to the digital economy.

"I have spoken with my wonderful Secretary of Commerce, Howard Lutnick, and we agree that the Biden/Harris so-called 'Digital Equity Act' is totally UNCONSTITUTIONAL," Trump wrote Thursday on Truth Social. "No more woke handouts based on race!"

"The Digital Equity Program is a RACIST and ILLEGAL $2.5 BILLION DOLLAR giveaway. I am ending this IMMEDIATELY, and saving Taxpayers BILLIONS OF DOLLARS!" he added.

The act, signed into law by former President Joe Biden, targets seniors, incarcerated individuals, veterans, people with disabilities, those facing a language barrier, members of racial or ethnic minority groups, and people in rural areas.

"Too many communities lack access to high-speed internet. Many more can't afford it or don't know how to use it," the government's broadband website explained before being scrubbed by the Trump administration.

"The divide between those who have internet access and those who don't is stark. To create an equitable economy, we all need access to reliable and affordable high-speed internet."

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KEYWORDS: concerntroll; concerntrolling; davidedwards; digitalequityact; digitalequityprogram; fakenews; racistprogram; rawstory; tds

[dennisw]

Scrubbed I tells ya! And hit hardest too.

[AbolishCSEU]

[Opinionated Blowhard]

MSN reports that this law ensures that “everyone has access to the digital economy” as if its true or actually happened. The law was a mess that was never really implemented due to a byzantine application process.

[Da Coyote]

MSM? No one gives a shi...er...Dorkbama.

[ComputerGuy]

...Many more can't afford it or don't know how to use it...

I'll take Don't Know How To Use It for $100.

[TheThirdRuffian]

Love how they throw veterans in this.

Guaranteed any help to veterans is happenstance

[dennisw]

Plenty of room here for grifts bribes kickbacks and outright theft by the beastiary of Democrat constituencies

 

[Skwor]

They threw in the words veteran because they know people are tired of being told to give all the resources to “minorities” where the unspoken truth is they misuse all those tax dollars on cheap alcohol and immoral entertainment.

[Islander7]

To create an equitable economy...

There's that word again.

[cyclotic]

Why installation numbers are unavailable.

Because we work for the government. We don’t care at all about accomplishing our goals. If we did, they’d turn the money off and we’d have to find new jobs and actually do something. We don’t care about outcomes, only process.

[dennisw]

It would take 5 billion dollars to wire the Aleutian Islands for the Indians there

[Red6]

The woke crowd is smart.

They include veterans to make it hard to say “no.”

Then they use the veterans as their shield for defense.

But the requirements for veterans are stiff, few will qualify for the program.

Furthermore, the veteran population is 6% of the adult population, most of them are gainfully employed and productive and won't qualify.

Veterans might comprise .8% of those getting aid.

This is really an urban black hand out program.

[grobdriver]

which provided $2.5 billion in grants to ensure everyone had equal access to the digital economy.

And never did a damn thing (or precious little). Money wasted.

[Vaduz]

Biden/Harris so-called ‘Digital Equity Act’ is totally UNCONSTITUTIONAL.

Not many things about them wasn’t.

[CatHerd]

I was trying to figure out if this is the same program that actually never helped anyone (connected them to the internet).

[Old Yeller]

Child credit tax should stop after say 5 kids.

[shotgun]

2025 and the commie democrats are claiming people dont know how to use the internet.

This ranks right up there with black people don’t know how to obtain an ID to vote.

And yet, 48% of the population will buy into those arguments and continue to elect them.

[grobdriver]

The very same.

I'm guessing most of that money got laundered back into Biden's pocket.

[Liz]

Trump:”Biden/Harris’ so-called ‘Digital Equity Act’ is totally UNCONSTITUTIONAL. It’s
RACIST and an ILLEGAL $2.5B TAX DOLLAR giveaway. I am ending this IMMEDIATELY.”

The Biden/Harris $2.5B ‘Digital Equity Act’, signed into law by blithering Biden,
<><>pays incarcerated individuals, people with disabilities,
<><>foreign non-citizens w/ language barriers,
<><>racial/ethnic minority groups,
<><>and people in rural areas.

[bray]

We’re all going to die!