As shutdown fight looms, Congress should remember broadband program

With Congress facing a Sept. 30 deadline to pass both its appropriations and farm bills, and the threat of a government shutdown looming, the options to find a moving vehicle to which Congress could attach an extension of the $14 Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP) are running short. 

The ACP is expected to run out of federal funding within the next year. In anticipation of legislation to continue funding, some have called for an expansion of the program, while others h...

As shutdown fight looms, Congress should remember broadband program

With Congress facing a Sept. 30 deadline to pass both its appropriations and farm bills, and the threat of a government shutdown looming, the options to find a moving vehicle to which Congress could attach an extension of the $14 Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP) are running short. 

The ACP is expected to run out of federal funding within the next year. In anticipation of legislation to continue funding, some have called for an expansion of the program, while others h...