1. Eliminating E-Rate's roughly $2.6 billion in annual support would reduce real GDP by about $4.2 billion, real wages by about $2.8 billion and tax revenues by about $1.5 billion each year.

2. Eliminating Category 2 funding alone, which supports internal Wi-Fi and networks, would cut about $1.2 billion in support and reduce GDP by roughly $2.5 billion.

3. The South and West received the most E-Rate funding from FY2021 through FY2025. Average annual funding was about $999 million in the South, $786 million in the West, $454 million in the Midwest and $361 million in the Northeast.

4. Because the South receives the most support and has the highest ratio of E-Rate funding to education output, it would see the largest losses in GDP, labor income and tax revenue.

5. The economic loss exceeds the federal support removed because higher connectivity costs leave less money for other productive activities, and those effects ripple through suppliers, labor markets, household income, consumer spending and tax revenues.

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