Patrick Morrisey says federal rule changes, not the state’s decisions, significantly reduced the locations served by the state’s $1.2 billion broadband expansion. On Monday, Morrisey praised the Trump administration even as he acknowledged that its policies would exclude thousands of West Virginia locations from a federal broadband program meant to deliver high-speed internet. “We don’t get to write all the rules in West Virginia,” he said. Morrisey said state broadband officials plan to rely on leftover American Rescue Plan Act dollars to connect residents dropped by the BEAD program. Meanwhile, federal officials say the shrinking list of eligible homes is a sign of progress, not failure.