Roth will become the Director of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) and hold sway over the rollout of the $42.5 billion Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) Program.
"Any businesses that are looking for FCC approval, I would encourage them to get busy ending any sort of their invidious forms of DEI discrimination," Carr told Bloomberg in an interview.
Citing a desire to "remove unnecessary rules and mandates, to improve efficiency, take a more technology-neutral approach, cut unnecessary red tape, and streamline deployment," the NTIA has announced a 90 day "programmatic waiver" to the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) Program Final Proposal deadlines, allowing time for necessary adjustments to the program as states prepare to implement changes.