The National Telecommunications and Information Administration issued a waiver notice, granting states an extension on submitting their final broadband deployment plans.

"At this late stage, major changes would undermine our work and delay deployment by years," legislators said of proposed changes to the BEAD program.

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said he's “ripping out” the “pointless requirements” inserted by former President Joe Biden into the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment program.