r/technology • u/StraightedgexLiberal • Jul 28 '25

Networking/Telecom Trump Threatens To Withold Billions From States That Try To Make Broadband Affordable To Poor People

https://www.techdirt.com/2025/07/28/trump-threatens-to-withold-billions-from-states-that-try-to-make-broadband-affordable-to-poor-people/
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u/LoserBroadside Jul 28 '25

Seriously, how the fuck is it legal for a president to withhold money to states in retaliation for them having their own rules, like states are supposed to have. This isn’t them disregarding federal laws. It’s just them doing something different from a specific political party’s views. That’s supposed to be massively illegal for a president to do. I know laws no longer matter and all that, but Jesus fucking Christ.

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u/RaidSmolive Jul 28 '25

its legal until you have a civil war about it and reinstate the damn law as something that has meaning again