Biden-⁠Harris Administration Celebrates Historic Progress in Rebuilding America Ahead of Two-Year Anniversary of Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act

Two years ago, President Biden signed the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act—a once-in-a-generation investment in America’s infrastructure and competitiveness. Since then, the Biden-Harris Administration has been breaking ground on projects to rebuild our roads and bridges, deliver clean and safe water, clean up legacy pollution, expand access to high-speed internet, and build a clean energy economy. Through his Investing in America agenda, a core pillar of Bidenomics, President Biden is delivering an “Infrastructure Decade” that is unlocking access to economic opportunity, creating good-paying jobs, boosting domestic manufacturing, and growing America’s economy from the middle up and bottom out – not the top-down. The Administration has already enabled more than 21 million low-income households to access free or discounted high-speed internet service through the Affordable Connectivity Program. The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act invests $65 billion to help ensure that every American has access to affordable, reliable high-speed internet—regardless of their income, race, religion, or zip code. The Affordable Connectivity Program is already saving more than 21 million households up to $30 a month on their internet bills, and more households enroll every day. The Administration is urging Congress to provide additional funding for this program so that low-income seniors, students, and families can continue to receive free and discounted internet service through 2024. In June, the Biden-Harris Administration announced over $40 billion in funding allocations to each U.S. state, territory, and D.C. for affordable, reliable high-speed Internet infrastructure. This funding comes atop $1 billion for middle-mile infrastructure, which will build more than 12,000 miles of fiber across 250 counties, and $2 billion for rural high-speed internet, with 121 awards going to 36 states across the country. In Missouri, Michigan, and Mississippi, construction is already underway on projects funded by the Department of Agriculture’s ReConnect Program. These projects, funded with $28 million from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, will connect 7,100 people, 660 farms, and 149 businesses directly to fiber networks. Commerce has also awarded 148 Tribal Broadband Connectivity Program (TBCP) grants, totaling more than $886 million, and serving over 280 Tribal Governments, which will connect more than 65,000 Tribal households. Together, these investments mirror federal government’s historic investment in rural electrification during the 1930s, when the US connected nearly every home and farm in America to electricity and millions of families and our economy reaped the benefits.