Morrisey's office did not respond to a request for comment from NPR. To Evan Feinman, who ran the federal broadband grant program in the Commerce Department under Biden, the move makes little sense.

However, BEAD director Evan Feinman left the Commerce Department last month. Trump-appointed Commerce Department Secretary Howard Lutnick plans to overhaul the program, citing “woke mandates, ...

America's most expensive broadband investment ever just lost its top leader and supporter, Evan Feinman. Feinman issued a sharp warning to colleagues in an email Sunday morning that millions of ...

Howard Lutnick told staff to increase use of satellite internet, specifically naming Starlink, according to a new FT report.

The new administration has frozen a $42 billion plan to get broadband into rural areas as it shifts toward satellite service from Elon Musk’s Starlink and Jeff Bezos’s Kuiper.

These concerns were highlighted when BEAD Program Director Evan Feinman resigned from his role on March 14. In his resignation letter, Feinman laid out changes he expects will be made to the ...

For three years, Evan Feinman led the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment program or BEAD, which has a budget of about ...

Evan Feinman, former director of BEAD program Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick plans to take a more "technology-neutral" approach to BEAD, according to a report published by The Wall Street Journal.

“There does not seem to be a clear understanding of the difference in these technologies, nor in the long-term impacts of making one choice versus another,” said Evan Feinman, the former director of ...