ReConnecting Rural America Act of 2025

This bill rewrites the rural broadband section of the Rural Electrification Act of 1936 to set up the ReConnect program for grants, loans, and grant-loan combinations to build broadband in rural areas. Funded projects must offer speeds of at least 100 Mbps download and 100 Mbps upload, in areas where at least 75 percent of households lack 100/20 Mbps service. Recipients must finish building within 5 years and take part in the Lifeline program or a successor internet affordability program. The bill authorizes $650 million per year for fiscal years 2026 through 2030, plus $350 million per year for additional loans, and ends new awards after September 30, 2030. It also moves unspent money from the existing pilot program into the new program and ends that pilot program.

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Sponsors

• Roger Marshall Republican sponsor
• 1 cosponsors