President Joe Biden’s expensive promises to build 500,000 electric vehicle charging stations and provide high-speed internet to rural Americans have largely gone unfulfilled. Despite allocating $7.5 billion for EV stations and over $42 billion for rural internet, progress has been minimal.
Ahead of the 2020 election, Biden pledged to construct a nationwide network of EV charging stations. However, as of last month, only eight stations have been built. Similarly, Biden’s 2021 promise to deliver high-speed internet to unserved Americans through the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) program has yet to connect a single home.
Brendan Carr, a Republican commissioner on the Federal Communications Commission, criticized the administration for its lack of progress. He highlighted that despite receiving $42.45 billion from Congress, the BEAD program has not initiated any construction projects and is not expected to do so until 2025.