The US Federal Communications Commission may soon pull funding for free Wi-Fi on school buses and in libraries after Chair Brendan Carr declared two Biden-era expansions unlawful and proposed eliminating them.

Carr, who was elevated to his leadership position by President Donald Trump, said this week that two Biden-era E-Rate expansions - one that funded Wi-Fi access on school buses and the other that created library lending programs for mobile Wi-Fi hotspots - were illegal, and as such had to go.

The FCC chair explained his reasoning by saying that Congress did not authorize the agency to use its E-Rate program for off-campus broadband after pandemic subsidies ended, and called the Biden FCC's move to do so a "plain violation of the limits Congress imposed on the FCC's authority."

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