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Nevada's big fiber internet build-out still on track despite Trump admin pause

The BEAD program has come under fire from both sides of the aisle recently as an example of the slowness of bureaucracy, because 3 ½ years after its passage, zero miles of broadband infrastructure have been built with these funds.

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Why Nevada advocates, businesses want Biden to expand work permits for the undocumented

Though a bevy of proposals — expanding TPS to more nations and issuing executive orders to give more categories of undocumented immigrants work eligibility — have been floated by immigration advocates, any new executive actions beyond TPS are likely to be challenged in court. Even so, business leaders, immigrants and politicians are urging the administration to do more.

D.C. Download: Horsford turns up heat on Senate Judiciary Democrats

Rep. Steven Horsford (D-NV) and the Congressional Black Caucus are taking on a Senate practice holding up judicial nominees, the Biden administration is sending troops to the border, and the White House released projections for Nevada if House Republicans' debt limit bill were to become law.

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