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"New home sales are prone to heavy revisions. A flat-ish trend in sales, similar to what has been evident all year, seems more likely," they added.

The government has also sought revisions to admissions, hiring, treatment of gender identity, diversity programs and data disclosure to restore funding.

The rulemaking has gone through many revisions and stalls, Valachovic said, as the board and then the committee sifted through hours of testimony, dozens of studies and hundreds of comments.

The move comes a day after the agency issued a revision to job figures showing growth last year was far weaker than it had previously estimated.

Economists had anticipated a large downward revision, but the weaker-then-expected figure bolstered concerns about the health of the world's largest economy.