Advocates pledge action to restore digital equity grants
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ByChris Teale,
Managing Editor, Route Fifty
May 18, 2026 04:45 PM ET
One year after President Donald Trump rescinded the funds, various groups and lawmakers have kicked off a month of action to push for their restoration.
Just over one year ago, President Donald Trump announced via social media he was ending digital equity grants, which he called a “racist and illegal $2.5 billion giveaway.”
Twelve months on, a coalition of lawmakers, nonprofits and other advocates are pledging to fight back, restore funding and prevent similar rescissions in the future, even though the odds are stacked against them. And they promised to continue their fight in the courts.
Following Trump’s May 2025 declaration that he would be ending digital equity grants, states quickly received lettersinforming them their grants had been terminated, while the National Telecommunications and Information...
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