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Without an injection of new funding to the ACP, the program that has helped more than 23 million households get and stay online will expire in May.

If Congress doesn’t act, in a matter of days the internet bills for one out of every six homes in the country will go up.

This essential broadband subsidy will end in weeks without renewed resources, leaving tens of millions of households paying more to access the internet.

Without additional congressional funding, the Affordable Connectivity Program will shut down, leaving millions of people without internet access.

A bipartisan group of lawmakers has signed on to a bill that would extend funding for the Affordable Connectivity Program, but more support is needed.

Nearly 23-million households will lose access to high-speed internet unless Congress invests more money in the Affordable Connectivity Program.

The ACP, which could run out of funding as soon as April, subsidizes the cost of internet access for households living near the poverty line or enrolled in other federal-aid programs.

A program designed to connect low-income households to high-speed internet will run out of money if Congress fails to act.

More than 170 social-justice, environmental, faith, health and labor groups urged key policymakers to take several emergency measures to keep people safe.