The White House’s acting budget chief is pressing for parts of the US’s Huawei ban to be delayed an additional two years, The Wall Street Journal reports.

The ban could dramatically reduce the number of telecom manufacturers capable of supplying services to the government, says Russell T. Vought, the acting director of the Office of Management and Budget. He also says it could disproportionately affect telecom companies that serve rural areas.

Vought requested the delay in a letter directed to Vice President Mike Pence and several members of Congress. He specifically asks for restrictions on contractors and federal loan and grant recipients, enacted last year in a defense bill, to be delayed for an additional two years.

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