“We’re going to provide affordable high-speed internet for every American—rural, urban, suburban, and tribal communities,” said Joe Biden in his State of the Union address in 2022, referring to the infrastructure law he had signed the previous November. He bragged about it again in the 2023 SOTU, and the one in 2024. In fact, while the infrastructure law created the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment Program, or BEAD, and seeded it with a whopping $42.5 billion to bring high-speed