Billionaire entrepreneur and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk on Wednesday slammed the Biden administration’s $42.5 billion rural high-speed internet plan as an “outrageous waste of taxpayer money” on the heels of media reports that the plan, despite its big budget, failed to provide connectivity to the people.
“This government program is an outrageous waste of taxpayer money and is utterly failing to serve people in need,” Musk said. The CEO was responding to a media report from The Washington Times that said that not a single home or business has been connected to new broadband networks nearly three years after President Biden signed the $42.5 billion federal modernization program into law in November 2021.
Musk, who has often criticized Biden as too “old” to serve as President, also opined that “some people” must lose their jobs over the lack of results from the program.
“Wow, that’s crazy! Surely some people should lose their jobs over this? If wasting billions isn’t enough, what *does* it take!?” the CEO wrote.
The billionaire CEO also agreed with an X user who said the government wasted money and SpaceX’s Starlink could have solved rural America’s connectivity issues for way less money.
“True,” Musk said in affirmation to the user.
