Trump names Brendan Carr, senior GOP leader at FCC, to lead the agency
President-elect Donald Trump on Sunday named Brendan Carr, the senior Republican on the Federal Communications Commission, as the new chairman of the agency tasked with regulating broadcasting, telecommunications and broadband.
Carr is a longtime member of the commission and served previously as the FCC's general counsel. He has been unanimously confirmed by the Senate three times and was nominated by both Trump and President Joe Biden to the commission.
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Carr has of late embraced Trump's ideas about social media and tech. Carr wrote a section devoted to the FCC in 바카라 게임 웹사이트Project 2025,바카라 게임 웹사이트 a sweeping blueprint for gutting the federal workforce and dismantling federal agencies in a second Trump administration produced by the conservative Heritage Foundation.
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Carr said in a statement congratulating Trump on his win that he believed "the FCC will have an important role to play reining in Big Tech, ensuring that broadcasters operate in the public interest, and unleashing economic growth.바카라 게임 웹사이트
바카라 게임 웹사이트Commissioner Carr is a warrior for Free Speech, and has fought against the regulatory Lawfare that has stifled Americans바카라 게임 웹사이트 Freedoms, and held back our Economy,바카라 게임 웹사이트 Trump said in a statement on Sunday. 바카라 게임 웹사이트He will end the regulatory onslaught that has been crippling America바카라 게임 웹사이트s Job Creators and Innovators, and ensure that the FCC delivers for rural America.바카라 게임 웹사이트
The five-person commission has a 3-2 Democratic majority until next year, when Trump gets to appoint a new member.
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Also a prolific writer of op-eds, Carr wrote in an for The Wall Street Journal last month decrying an FCC decision to revoke a federal award for Elon Musk바카라 게임 웹사이트s satellite service, Starlink. He said the move couldn바카라 게임 웹사이트t be explained "by any objective application of the facts, the law or sound policy.바카라 게임 웹사이트
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