House GOP Proposes to Kill Agriculture Department Broadband Loan Subsidy Program

摘要

The Agriculture Department’s $29 million Broadband Direct Loan Subsidy program would be neliminated under a short-term continuing resolution proposed by Republicans on the House nAppropriations Committee. The program “is duplicative of several other federal programs, nand the Agriculture Inspector General has uncovered abuses and inconsistencies in the nprogram as well as a lack of focus on the rural communities it is intended to serve,” the ncommittee said. President Barack Obama didn’t seek money for Agriculture broadband loans nin his proposed fiscal 2012 budget, because the department has $1.2 billion in carryover nbalances from “implementing the Recovery Act programs over the last two years,” USDA said nin its budget summary.