$30 is a choice between a tank of gas, school supplies, medication or your internet bill.
And that’s a choice that we’ve helped a lot of families avoid for a long time.
Without any new enrollments, an additional $7 billion would carry the ACP through March 2025.
Thats around half of all eligible households nationwide.
This is expected to happen within the next week.
We want to verify that we avoid bill shock, Perez told us.
Folks who qualify on this are some of the most vulnerable populations.
We want to ensure they don’t get stuck with a bill that they can’t afford.
Internet providers wont be able to simply transfer customers to a new plan.
In 2023, nearly 600,000 new households enrolled in the program each month.
How likely is an ACP extension?
And it has nothing to do with ACP.
It has to do with the politics of the budget.
But proponents of the program argue that price is actually the most significant barrier to connecting people to internet.
Funds arespent almost equallyin Democratic and Republican House districts.
If lawmakers want to have a discussion with us about are there changes to the program?
Are there aspects of it that we’d be willing to reexamine so that extend it?
I think we’re ready to have those conversations, Perez told us.
