Wasn’t Kamala Harris part of a big push to provide better internet to rural American? I thought I remembered reading $25B in federal funding with essentially 0 marginal positive outcome
That pattern extends back to the Clinton administration.
I don't know as much about this issue, but definitely do not doubt that, and the fact that this has not carried on indicates more and deeper issues (the video does mention about the progress of the project being too slow under Biden and does broader criticism than towards Musk/Trump). But corruption being a thing during previous governments does not make the current overt corruption better.
Over the last 30 years there have been plenty of attempts if you will to build out fiber. Some did lay fiber, others seem to have not.
The Biden bill did get my parents fiber in rural Wisconsin because the local ISP actually wanted to deliver Internet.
I think the government was hoping that raising and holding providers accountable with the bandwidth tests would have solved that but enforcement is one place this is falling down.