ACP Funding Ends, Cantwell Seeks Alternative Funds, Lawmakers Scramble

As the final month of partial Affordable Connectivity Program payments commences, Senate Commerce Committee Chair Maria Cantwell (D-WA) is seeking to fund the program through a measure that would reauthorize the agency’s spectrum auction authority due to Republican resistance to directly fund ACP. But one GOP co-sponsor of the Affordable Connectivity Program Extension Act, Sen. J.D. Vance (OH), told CQ Thursday (May 2) that he plans to force a vote on ACP funding as part of the Senate effort to...