President Biden is heading to North Carolina on Thursday to announce $82 million in new investments to connect homes and businesses in the state to high-speed internet. He will go to the Raleigh-Du…

President Biden is heading to North Carolina on Thursday to announce $82 million in new investments to connect homes and businesses in the state to high-speed internet.

He will go to the Raleigh-Durham area in the critical battleground state to make the announcement, alongside Gov. Roy Cooper (D). The funding comes from the American Rescue Plan, which was the COVID-19 relief package Biden signed into law in 2021, and aims to connect an additional 16,000 homes and businesses in North Carolina.

The investment, according to a fact sheet from the White House, will also create jobs in manufacturing and construction to produce “Made-in-America fiber-optic cable that will build out internet infrastructure across the country.”

  • @naught@sh.itjust.works
    -1•6 months ago

    Just because you only pay attention around election time does not mean Biden has been doing nothing this entire time… that doesn’t make any sense. Like he hibernated through the term and only just now regained consciousness to campaign again?

    This reeks of both-sideism. Please compare the platforms and policies of the two sides you seem equally disillusioned with.

    • @givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
      0•6 months ago

      No, I have been paying attention…

      One of the biggest criticism of Biden s early years, was that he appeared to have no plan when he took office. He didn’t have anything ready to go, and said he would start to look into his various campaign promises.

      And before that was done, we lost the House.

      This reeks of both-sideism

      Republicans are a lost cause.

      If the only standard for the only other option is “not republican” then we, as a country not just a party, are completely fucked.

      1/3 of this country doesn’t vote, moving further right for decades isn’t working. It’s time to go back to FDR style Dems when Republicans could only manage to win two states

      https://www.270towin.com/1936_Election/interactive_map

        • @givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1•6 months ago

          Benefit of the doubt that’s true and he did get some stuff done that was substantial:

          Is it enough to offset alternating with Republicans?

          Moderate progress only works if it’s steady. Ten steps back and five steps forward is still moving backwards.

          If moderate progress is the most we reach for, we’ll never make any progress on a long time scale when modern Republicans get equal turns.

          And the way to prevent that, is trying for faster progress. The party just won’t try that, because their donors don’t want it.

          Bringing us alllll the way back to 1/3 of voters just not voting.