Prominent Republicans Continue to Question USF’s Future without Reforms
Former Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Wash.), who led the Energy and Commerce Committee for one term, calls for USF’s overhaul before lawmakers consider new revenue sources
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USF: Political positioning over reform of the FCC’s Universal Service Fund continues unbated. Former Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers just warned that Congress should reject proposals that sought to make Big Tech or broadband ISPs pay into the USF, arguing the program needed a full overhaul before lawmakers considered new revenue sources. In a Washington Times op‑ed (‘No new taxes to fund the FCC’s Universal Service Fund’), she wrote, “Washington has a familiar playbook when an outdated federal program runs into trouble: Rather than fixing what’s broken, it just finds someone new to pay for it.” (More after paywall)
