One Year After BEAD Restructured, Some States Still Can’t Access Infrastructure Funding

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.

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