Expand broadband and internet services in the district.

Expand broadband and internet services in our District so that businesses and schools can compete in a modern economy.

Commits to expanding broadband infrastructure in the district.

Issues | Figures For Congress
primary · campaign_site · model gpt-5.4-mini

The campaign issues page says Figures would "Expand broadband and internet services in our District so that businesses and schools can compete in a modern economy."

This is the underlying campaign promise for the claim.

unresolved unknown

Issues | Figures For Congress
primary · model gpt-5.4-mini · confidence 99%

Congress.gov shows Figures introduced H.R. 7533 on February 12, 2026, to reauthorize and expand the Rural Innovation Stronger Economy grant program; the bill was referred to the House Agriculture Committee the same day and remained in introduced status in the available record.

Figures advanced a concrete rural-development bill, but the public record here does not show enactment or a direct broadband/internet buildout in the district.

unresolved later_term A for effort

H.R.7533 - To amend the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to reauthorize and expand the Rural Innovation Stronger Economy grant program
secondary · model gpt-5.4-mini · confidence 74%

The district office was accepting FY2026 appropriations requests to advocate for programs that support Alabama's Second Congressional District, with submissions accepted through April 21, 2025.

This shows office-level effort to pursue district funding, but it does not specifically document completed broadband expansion.

unresolved same_term

Appropriations Requests | Representative Shomari Figures
secondary · model gpt-5.4-mini · confidence 61%

Alabama announced NTIA approval of its BEAD final proposal and nearly $460 million in grants for 63 projects to expand broadband to about 92,000 unserved locations statewide. The listed awards include several counties in or overlapping Alabama's 2nd District, including Mobile County, Montgomery County, Barbour County, Bullock County, Butler County, Conecuh County, Crenshaw County, Macon County, Monroe County, Pike County, Russell County, and Washington County. The same release says ADECA was still developing contracts for the 63 preliminarily approved projects.

This is concrete broadband-expansion funding affecting AL-02 counties during Figures's first House term, but the source attributes the action to Alabama/ADECA/NTIA and says contracts were still being developed, not that service was already built out.

partial same_term

Governor Ivey Announces Approval of Final BEAD Broadband Proposal, Awards $460 Million to Expand Access to High-Speed Internet
secondary · model gpt-5.5 · confidence 86%

ADECA's BEAD page posts Alabama's Final Proposal materials, including Final Proposal Subgrantees, Deployment Projects, Locations, No BEAD Locations, and Community Anchor Institutions. It also posts implementation materials such as subaward agreements, scope of work, project budget, closeout and reporting obligations, monitoring FAQs, and a monitoring plan.

The state record confirms that BEAD has moved into subgrantee and implementation documentation, which is meaningful progress toward expansion but does not show completed district broadband service expansion attributable to Figures.

partial same_term

Alabama Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) Program
secondary · model gpt-5.5 · confidence 78%

ADECA announced a May 13, 2026 webinar for awarded BEAD subgrantees on reporting requirements, including quarterly desk reviews, semi-annual reports, annual reports, closeout reports, deployment milestones, financial status, matching contributions, construction progress, and oversight requirements for at-risk subgrantees.

This shows Alabama's broadband awards were in active post-award oversight by May 2026, with construction progress still a monitored obligation rather than a documented completed district buildout.

partial same_term

Alabama Digital Expansion Division
secondary · model gpt-5.5 · confidence 74%

Within the lookback window, reporting described continuing national BEAD implementation delays after federal restructuring, saying only a very small number of homes in Nebraska and Louisiana had actually been connected and that final NTIA guidance on nondeployment funds still had not been issued.

This is not district-specific, but it is a recent sign that the main federal broadband expansion program remained only partly implemented nationally, supporting caution against treating AL-02 broadband expansion as fully delivered.

unresolved unknown

Elon Musk and the plot to hijack America's broadband
secondary · model gpt-5.5 · confidence 58%