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Newly installed FCC Chairman Ajit Pai restricted the scope of a federal program intended to provide internet access to low-income Americans just a week after claiming that closing digital divide would be one of his top priorities.
Regulators are telling nine companies they won't be allowed to participate in a federal program meant to help them provide affordable Internet access to low-income consumers - weeks after those companies had been given the green light.
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Representative Matt Gaetz (FL-1) has filed legislation named "To terminate the Environmental Protection Agency" (H.R. 861). According to the Louisville Courrier-Journal, the bill would "create chaos" and result in a dramatically underfunded, haphazard effort to protect our planet.
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If the White House is indeed proceeding under fast-track authority, that suggests Trump could intend to scrap NAFTA altogether and forge bilateral trade deals with Mexico and Canada instead, said Gary Hufbauer, a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics.
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The FCC has declined to defend a 2015 FCC ruling that places caps on rates charged to inmates making phone calls from prison.
The Federal Communications Commission will not defend all its rules capping the rates prison telephone providers can charge inmates during oral argument Feb. 6, an FCC official told a federal appeals court Jan. 31.
Without this rule, the prison population and their loved ones can be gouged for simply communicating with family and friends.
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President Trump signed three executive orders on Monday morning that cancel an agreement for a far-reaching trade deal with Asia, start a hiring freeze for many federal government positions, and reinstitute an intermittent policy that prevents federal family-planning money from being sent to international organizations that discuss or perform abortion services.
The executive order ending the United States’ participation in the Trans-Pacific Partnership was symbolic, as the deal was unlikely to make it through Congress.