🚨The Trump administration just BANNED Gavin Newsom from giving federal dollars to illegal aliens under a program governed by the FCC - He was HIDING Social Security numbers so the feds couldn't check legal status.- We are revoking California’s “opt-out” status...
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Why is the FCC handing out any money at all?
Good damn question. The theft is unbelievable.
The lifeline system is part of FEMA.
The Obama phone was not funded so they went to the next free phone.
Came to ask that.
It was part of the insidious Telecom Act of 1996 under Clinton. It existed in a lesser form under Reagan. The idea was that low income people needed to have 911 access, so a subsidy was given to the poor so they could afford a phone line. This was later (absurdly) expanded to include internet services as critical infrastructure. The entire program is ridiculous today as everyone has a mobile phone with 911 access for free. Anyone who genuinely needs 911 can simply pick up any old phone that people routinely throw away. You don't even need a plan.
Shutting off subsidies to California will prove that nobody needs this antiquated system anymore and it can be removed for the rest of the country.