Remarks by President Biden at the National Association of Counties Legislative Conference

The American Rescue Plan provided $350 billion to state and local governments. Then we passed the most significant investment in our nation’s infrastructure in generations: roads, bridges, railroads, ports, airports, public transit, clean water, high-speed Internet, and so much more. You know, just like FDR passed the Rural Electrification Act to deliver electricity to nearly every home and farm in America, we’re building affordable high-speed Internet for everyone in America, because the Internet is just as essential today as electricity was then. Last month, I was in Wake County, North Carolina—where we’re investing $3 billion to connect the entire state to affordable high-speed Internet by the end of the decade. We’re doing that in all 50 states, where we’ve already saved 23 million families as much as $75 a month on their Internet bills.