The Harris Broadband Rollout Has Been a Fiasco – WSJ

The 2021 infrastructure law included $42.5 billion for states to expand broadband to unserved, mostly rural, communities. Three years later, ground hasn t been broken on a single project. The Administration recently said construction won t start until next year at the earliest, meaning many projects won t be up and running until the end of the decade.

Blame the Administration s political regulations. States must submit plans to the Commerce Department about how they ll use the funds and their bidding process for providers. Commerce has piled on mandates that are nowhere in the law and has rejected state plans that don t advance progressive goals.

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This is why we can’t have nice things. It’s going to be a wake up call for Elon if Trump wins. I think Musk will find it an enormous challenge to fix government and I bet he fails — but here’s hoping. It’s one thing to send colonizers to Mars. It’s another to push a project through thousands of lawyers.