how infrastructure is maintained and funded generally depends on who owns it the government owns a lot of infrastructure for transportation water and public education most infrastructure is owned by state and local governments often partially supported through federal subsidies and some infrastructure may be entirely privately owned 
additionally public private partnerships exist in maintaining infrastructure in 2004 cintra entered into a 99 year lease with the city of chicago to operate and maintain the chicago skyway bridge as part of the agreement cintra receives all toll and concession revenue generated by the bridge while the city benefited from a 1 82 billion cash infusion and is no longer responsible for maintaining the bridge 6the united states has embarked on many infrastructure plans including the american recovery and reinvestment act of 2009 and in 2015 the 305 billion transportation infrastructure bill 78on november 15 2021 president joe biden signed the infrastructure investment and jobs act which allocates 1 2 trillion to fund the rebuilding of roads bridges water infrastructure internet and more 9the 2021 package also includes new incentives and investment in developing infrastructure components such as 7 5 billion to support electric vehicles and 65 billion to ensure every american has access to reliable high speed internet 10 in 2022 the white house announced that at t comcast verizon spectrum and 16 other providers will offer high speed internet plans of at least 100 megabits per second for no more than 30 per month to eligible low income households citing the new government subsidy established by 2021 legislation 11