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President Joe Biden recently traveled to North Carolina to promote his goal of affordable internet access for all Americans, but the promise for 23 million families across the U.S. is on shaky ground.That because a subsidy that helps people with limited resources afford internet access is set to expire this spring.The Affordable Connectivit stanley cup y Program ACP , which provides $30 a month for qualifying families in most places and $75 on tribal lands, will run out of money by the end of April if Congress doesn ;t extend it further. I think this should be high prior stanley cup ity for Congress, North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper, a Democrat who has worked with a bipartisan group of governors to promote the program, said in a phone interview. To many families, $30 a month is a big deal. It matters a lot to Shirleen Alexander of Charlotte, who said the money she saves through the ACP goes toward her grocery bills. It also offsets some of the stress she feels over medical bills. If they took ACP away, it would be like taking food out of my mouth, said Alexander, a senior citizen on a fixed income. I need the service, and some of my senior citizen friends need it, as well. WATCH: Biden announces $42.5 billion plan to expand high-speed internet to communities with no or slow serviceThe program is key to the Biden administration plans to make the internet available to everyone, which the president has touted repea stanley cup tedly as he has ramped up his reelection campaign. He has lik Rdfr Trump staffer apologizes for Melania Trump speech
LAS VEGAS AP 鈥?Democratic presidential candidate Amy Klobuchar says she no longer believes English should be the national language of the U.S., disavowing a vote she took more than a decade ago as she tries stanley cup to build support in a state where Hispanics make up a critical constituency.Campaigning in Las Vegas, the three-te stanley cup rm Minnesota senator said Friday that she has changed her stance since voting for an English-language amendment in 2007 and has taken a strong position against it. She also blasted President Donald Trump for using immigrants as wedges and said as president she would work with Republicans to achieve comprehensive immigration reform.Klobuchar record on immigration is under scrutiny after her third-place finish in the New Hampshire primary this week revived her campaign and sent her on to Nevada Feb. 22 caucuses with fresh momentum. After focusi adidas campus ng much of her campaign on the first two voting states 鈥?Iowa and New Hampshire, both predominantly white 鈥?she now navigating a much more diverse electorate, where some of her moderate positions and willingness to vote with her Republican colleagues could be a liability.Klobuchar was one of 17 Democrats to support a 2007 amendment that would have reversed President Bill Clinton executive order requiring federal agencies to provide materials in languages other than English. It passed 64-33, but the larger immigration bill died.WATCH: Klobuchar and Buttigieg trade