Newly appointed FCC chairman Ajit Pai reversed a number of his predecessors’ actions this afternoon, including shutting down a series of inquiries into net neutrality violations.

While those were the more attention-grabbing changes, Pai also took actions that suggest he’s planning to alter Federal Communications Commission programs that subsidize broadband for schools and low-income families.

One order reverses a small expansion of the FCC’s Lifeline program, which offers $9.25 per month off broadband or phone services for households near or beneath the poverty line.

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