Appropriations Bill Would Block Parts of Trump Sec. 230 Executive Order

An appropriations bill that would fund the Federal Communications Commission and Federal Trade Commission includes language that would limit President Donald Trump's effort to regulate social media, as well as provide billions to help better identify and close the digital divide, and use secure technology to do so. The bill, which includes funding for a number of agencies and programs, has $67,040,000,000 in "emergency infrastructure investments to respond to the economic collapse related to the coronavirus," most of which ($61,040,000,000) would go to pay for expanding broadband in unserved areas as well as to fund the FCC's broadband mapping effort and for the replacement of insecure network tech through the Trusted Communications Networks Reimbursement Program