The Kamala Harris campaign keeps pushing "joy" while offering few specific policy proposals, but we don’t actually have to look hard to find out how she’d be as president—just examine her record.
And boy, oh boy, is it bad. She was the “last one in the room” when Joe Biden made his final decision on the disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal, she was “border czar” (despite her claims otherwise) even as millions and millions of illegal aliens flooded into the country, and she was the tie-breaking vote on the “Inflation Reduction Act,” which was really just a barely-disguised Green New Deal that sent inflation soaring.
Lo and behold, she’s got another disastrous performance under her belt, and that’s in her role as “broadband czar,” a role Biden handed her so she could oversee efforts to get high-speed internet to rural residents. It hasn’t gone well.
Commissioner Brendan Carr, the senior Republican on the Federal Communications Commission, appeared in front of the House Oversight Committee hearing on Thursday and savaged the effort:
🚨 FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr says Kamala Harris has made no progress on her broadband infrastructure initiative despite having 3 years to work on it.
— Oversight Committee (@GOPoversight) September 19, 2024
“In 2021, Vice President Harris agreed to lead the administration's signature $42 billion effort to extend internet service… pic.twitter.com/8EQOfOaUnI
In the above tweet, the Oversight Committee notes that Carr said it's been close to three years and almost nothing has been done [bolding theirs]:
FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr says Kamala Harris has made no progress on her broadband infrastructure initiative despite having 3 years to work on it.
“In 2021, Vice President Harris agreed to lead the administration's signature $42 billion effort to extend internet service to millions of Americans.
“It's now been 1039 days since that program was enacted.
“After all of that time, not one person has been connected to the internet.
Does it seem like a pattern with this administration?
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But Carr wasn't done: he said Kamala's performance has led to a historically slow roll-out to a federal program:
“Not one home, not one business, not even one shovel worth of dirt has been turned.
“And it gets worse.
“No infrastructure builds will even start until sometime next year at the earliest, and in many cases, not until 2026.
“This makes Vice President Harris's $42 billion initiative the slowest moving federal broadband deployment program in recent history.”
But why is the effort so bogged down? What could possibly be taking so long? Yup, you guessed it, the administration is focused more on woke social goals and retribution against Elon Musk for not propping up the administration's narrative.
🚨JUST IN: FCC Commissioner @BrendanCarrFCC slams Vice President Kamala Harris's $42 billion broadband initiative, saying it hasn't connected a single person to the internet in 3 years.
— KanekoaTheGreat (@KanekoaTheGreat) September 19, 2024
"In 2021, VP Harris agreed to lead a $42 billion effort to expand internet access to… pic.twitter.com/YgBoafNW0Y
Carr accuses the administration of focusing on climate change, DEI, and other political goals instead of connecting Americans. He points out that the government revoked a $1,300 per location deal with after President Biden targeted @elonmusk, and now the government is spending over $100,000 per location on its own efforts.
"The bottom line: Without major reforms, VP Harris's $42 billion program is wired to fail. It's time to correct course. Get rid of all the extraneous political goals and focus on quickly connecting Americans."
This is the kind of government we'd get from Kamala Harris, folks. Bloated, ineffective, and woke. She keeps proving that day after day; we can only hope that enough voters see it for themselves.
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