Broadband deregulation agenda at Commerce Department set to save $21 billion: Lutnick

The Trump administration’s emphasis on broadband reform is saving taxpayers billions of dollars, according to Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick. 

Lutnick announced on Monday that the deregulation agenda is on track to cut $21 billion in bureaucratic and politicized policies regulating broadband, which he said were pushed by the Biden administration. 

“That means putting an end to arrangements that were trying to send tens of billions of taxpayer dollars to massively wasteful, complete rip-off projects run by powerful lobbyists who are very good at getting grants and very bad at delivering results,” Lutnick said in a post on X. 

“Money is only deployed when the American taxpayer gets the benefit of the bargain. When states do it right, fairly, and appropriately, the dollars go out right away.

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