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Senate Commerce Committee Set to Vote on Short-Term ACP Funding

The Spectrum and National Security Act would infuse the program with $7 billion.

Jake Neenan

Jake Neenan

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Senate Commerce Committee Set to Vote on Short-Term ACP Funding
Photo of Senate Commerce Committee Chair Maria Cantwell, D-Washington, in 2015 from the National Park Service

WASHINGTON, May 13, 2024 – The Senate Commerce Committee is set to vote Thursday on a bill that would provide short-term funding for the Affordable Connectivity Program as well as the rip and replace program.

Lawmakers had hoped to attach ACP funding to the must-pass Federal Aviation Administration reauthorization that made it out of the chamber on Thursday, but Senate leadership was successful in keeping non-aviation amendments off the bill.

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