The Biden administration’s $42 billion plan to subsidize rural broadband has so far connected a grand total of zero households:

Since that program worked so well, Kamala Harris wants a federal program to subsidize internet connection in half of Africa? But as we noted the other day in the Hotline, one billion people globally don’t have access to reliable electric power – in part because of the war on fossil fuels. Try getting the internet where there is no electricity. These people aren’t playing with 52 cards in the deck.