The American Broadband Initiative is helping rural America get high-speed Internet access.

The American initiative, coming from the Donald Trump administration, provides mission-critical high-speed connections in rural America. Megan Nelson, an economic analyst at the American Federation of Farmers' Bureaux, said the initiative aims to improve the rural economy, as access to broadband is no longer a luxury, but a long-standing necessity.

The initiative is the presidential administration’s plan to further expand its broadband infrastructure and provide high-speed Internet connectivity to the rural population. The initiative seeks to improve the quality of life of rural people and rural labor, technology, and rural economic development. The program is funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (UDSA) and the Federal Communications Commission.

Service providers mainly use two federal agencies to subsidize the costs of building rural broadband infrastructure: the UDSA Agriculture Service and the Universal Service Fund through the Federal Communications Commission. Currently, 29% of farms in the United States do not have Internet access.