One Year After BEAD Restructured, Some States Still Can’t Access Infrastructure Funding
Despite federal promises to accelerate deployment, states are still waiting on approvals to access broadband funds.
WASHINGTON, June 9, 2026 – The overhaul Republicans said would accelerate the nation’s largest broadband program has delayed it by at least a year.
Twelve months later, some states have yet to receive federal approval to access infrastructure funding, just one provider is serving subscribers, and more than $22 billion in taxpayer money remains tied up in the Commerce Department where officials are three months behind a deadline for issuing new guidance.
