Rep Khanna: Coronavirus has 'accelerated' the need for rural broadband

Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) said the coronavirus pandemic has “accelerated” the need to expand broadband into rural parts of the country as more of the country works remotely. “I mean, first of all, tech companies realized that remote work is more possible. Facebook has said that they're going to go all remote, or at least half of their staff of their employees are going to be remote. Twitter has said the same thing. So, I think we're seeing that we're gonna have more decentralization of technology jobs and opportunities.” Rep Khanna pointed to legislation introduced by House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn (D-SC) that would spend over $80 billion on expanding broadband as an avenue to help bring better internet connection to the whole country.