States Weighing Response to Trump's Cancellation of Digital Equity Funding

State broadband offices and nonprofits received notice on May 9 that digital equity grants had been canceled. States are weighing their next steps. The Vermont Community Broadband Board is meeting with the state attorney general’s office to discuss options, “up to and including filing a lawsuit that would address this head on, in terms of the constitutionality of this Congressional appropriation for these identified groups in need.”