Trump explains Bidens Digitaler Sharter Act “racist” and “unconstitutional”

President Trump attacked a law on Thursday, which was signed by President Joseph R. Biden Jr. to expand the high-speed internet access, to describe the efforts as “racist” and “completely unconstitutional” and end it “immediately”.

Mr. Trump's statement was one of the strong examples of his slash-and-burst approach to disassemble the legacy of his immediate predecessor during this term. The digital equity act, a little known to improve high-speed internet access in communities with poor access, was embedded in the cross-party infrastructure law of $ 1 trillion, which Mr. Biden signed at the beginning of his presidency.

The law was written to help many different groups, including veterans, older people and disabled and rural communities. But Mr. Trump used the fire language, which was a trademark of his political career, the law on Thursday, because he also wanted to improve internet access for ethnic and racist minorities, which raged in a social media post that it was the provision of “wok handouts based on the race”.

In reality, the law hardly mentions and only explains that racist minorities could be covered by the program, while a non -discrimination clause contains that says that individuals could not be excluded from the program, “based on the actual or perceived breed, color, color, religion, national origin, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age or disability.

The Digital Equity Act, which was worked out by Senator Patty Murray, the Democrat of Washington, offers scholarships and territories 60 million US dollars to help them achieve internet access equally and 2.5 billion US dollars in order to put these plans into force. Some of these funds have already been paid out in states with approved plans – including red, rural states such as Indiana, Alabama, Arkansas, Iowa and Kansas. Hundreds of million dollars of additional financial resources were approved by the Biden Administration in the weeks before Mr. Trump took office, but have not yet been distributed.

It was not immediately clear whether Mr. Trump had carried out his threat to end the grants that were acquired by the congress. The agencies that monitor the Internet initiative, the National Telecommunications and Information Administration and the Ministry of Commerce did not immediately answer inquiries about comments.

The cancellation of grants to states would almost certainly be questioned in front of the courts, where the Trump administration was at least temporarily successful in the suspension of grants in connection with stock and diversity programs. At the end of March, the administration did not fail to ward off a block for its comprehensive freezing of federal funds.