The problem here lies squarely with the Biden-Harris Administration’s implementation. Indeed, a state broadband official that has been trying to navigate Vice President Harris’s $42 billion program, so that her state can start connecting communities, recently shared her experience with the initiative. Testifying earlier this month before the House Energy and Commerce Committee, she described “a chaotic implementation environment,” “dysfunction,” and “delays.”9 The Biden-Harris Administration, she added, “has provided either no guidance, guidance given too late, or guidance changing midstream.”10 Continuing, she testified that the Biden-Harris Administration is “slowing states down and second-guessing good-faith efforts.”11 Indeed, state broadband officials across the country have sounded the alarm about the Administration’s rollout of BEAD. One director of a state broadband office described BEAD as “the most burdensome federal program” she has ever managed.12 Similarly, a former state broadband official that worked on BEAD recently wrote about the Biden-Harris Administration pursuing policies beyond what Congress authorized as a key factor in the delays...... ...

So what has the Biden-Harris Administration been doing over the last 1,039 days instead of focusing on connecting Americans? It has been layering on red tape and advancing a wish list of progressive policy goals that may cater to favored political constituencies, but undermine the goal of connecting all Americans.15 The $42 billion program being led by Vice President Harris is being used to pursue a climate change agenda, DEI requirements, technology biases, price controls, preferences for government-run networks, and rules that will undoubtedly lead to wasteful overbuilding. All of this will leave rural and other unconnected communities behind. And the Biden-Harris Administration has chosen to head down this path despite Congress expressly prohibiting the Administration from doing much of this partisan improvising.