Reintroduced Bill Would Update, Fund ReConnect Through 2030

WASHINGTON, Nov. 3, 2025 – A bill reintroduced in the Senate Thursday would provide up to $650 million each year for rural broadband expansion grants through 2030.

The bill would make other changes to the Department of Agriculture’s ReConnect Program, including prioritizing areas where at least 90 percent of homes lack access to broadband and establishing a 100 megabit per second (Mbps) upload and download speed threshold for projects funded under the program.

“Just as the great Kansan President Eisenhower understood the importance of investing in our nation’s highways in the 1950s, we must invest in the critical highway of our time: reliable, high-speed internet,” Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kan., said in a statement. He led the bill with Sen. Peter Welch, D-Vt.