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Podcast: Good Morning Liberty
Episode: How the Sausage was Made: An Inside Look at the BEAD Program w/ James Erwin || EP 1417
Description: James Erwin joins Josh to discuss his experiences working on the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) program as a staffer for Senator Susan Collins on Capitol Hill. They discuss how this massive bill and others like it get created, the near impossibility of creating a one size fits all bill that works for all the different states. Also, the different priorities of the Republican and Democrat Senators and staffers that turned a straightforward state block-grant program into a contradictory labyrinth of competing interests. Then ultimately, how the Biden administration attempted to hijack the program during its implementation.  James' article in...