Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may transmit, to a base station, a request for physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) repetition associated with a radio resource control (RRC) connection request message of a random access channel (RACH) procedure. The UE may transmit at least one PUSCH repetition associated with the RRC connection request message based at least in part on the request. Numerous other aspects are described.