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Carr Unveils His 'Build America' Agenda in Sioux Falls, Jul. 2, 2025

July 2, 2025 · The Hill · 0:25:09

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What happened

Brendan Carr delivered the speech “A Build Agenda for America” on July 2, 2025, in Sioux Falls, South Dakota — his first major address since becoming FCC chairman — carried live by The Hill. Carr said South Dakota showed what is possible when regulatory policy is right, and laid out the four-part agenda he said would guide the commission’s upcoming work, as Broadband Breakfast and the Akin Gump firm’s summary of the speech recorded.

First, unleashing high-speed infrastructure: modernizing regulations and streamlining permitting for broadband build-out, updating pole-attachment rules, and moving providers off legacy copper networks. Second, freeing up spectrum, which Carr said would create jobs, increase competition, and drive down consumer prices — he previewed July commission votes on licensing more spectrum. Third, expanding America’s space economy by accelerating satellite licensing and approvals. Fourth, modernizing the FCC’s own operations and eliminating unnecessary regulations through his “Delete, Delete, Delete” initiative. “It’s time to change things up. It’s time to unleash new growth and opportunity. It’s time to build,” Carr said, as Broadband Breakfast reported. The agenda statement also covered national-security work and telecom workforce development, according to the Akin Gump summary.

Why it matters

This is the founding document of Carr’s chairmanship: every later fight on this site — the spectrum pipeline he defended in two oversight hearings, the deregulation count, the permitting fights — traces back to the four commitments he made in Sioux Falls. Because he announced it as a governing agenda with named near-term votes, each pillar is checkable against the commission’s subsequent orders.

Scoreboard watch

This is a candidate item for the weekly scoreboard: the Build America agenda’s four commitments as stated on July 2, 2025 — streamlined infrastructure permitting and copper retirement, more spectrum freed for commercial use, faster satellite licensing, and the Delete, Delete, Delete deregulation program — to be checked against the FCC’s rulemakings and votes.

Sources: The Hill, live carry of Carr’s Sioux Falls address, July 2, 2025 (embedded above; also carried by KELOLAND News and FOX 5 Atlanta); Broadband Breakfast, July 2, 2025, on the agenda announcement; Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP, July 8, 2025, summary of the speech. All characterizations as stated by Mr. Carr.