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Why. It's not like it's in a remote location.
Elon Musk has lost a lot of money by palling around with Donald Trump.
My guess is that the high-profile "Donald Trump does a public pitch for Tesla cars on the White House lawn and says that he's buying one" and probably now "the White House is publicly getting Starlink" is Trump's way of trying to provide a favor to someone he sees as friendly, to help promote Musk's products.
EDIT: He might have more luck with Starlink than Tesla cars. Rural areas, which vote more Republican, probably have less use for EVs than do urban ones...but the reverse is probably true for satellite Internet service.
EDIT2: On a related note, I would guess that it would also be cheaper for the US to subsidize rural satellite Internet service than rural wired Internet service.
https://www.usda.gov/about-usda/news/press-releases/2024/12/18/biden-harris-administration-connects-people-and-businesses-rural-areas-reliable-high-speed-internet
$20 million to get wired Internet to 165 people is probably quite a bit more than it would cost to subsidize Starlink service, for example. Most of the costs are already paid to get satellites up there. At that point, adding more users in unsaturated cells is pretty cheap.
I'd give reasonable odds that if Musk were poking at that instead of mass layoffs of federal workers, he could probably simultaneously make money for himself, actually eliminate waste in the federal government, and get faster rollout of rural Internet service.
My work is installing it in case we lose internet