Donald Trump will nominate Brendan Carr, a senior GOP leader at the FCC, to head the agency

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — President-elect Donald Trump on Sunday named Brendan Carr, the senior Republican on the Federal Communications Commission, as the up-to-date chairman of the agency tasked with regulating broadcasting, telecommunications and broadband.

Carr is a long-time member of the commission and previously served as general counsel of the FCC. He has been confirmed unanimously by the Senate three times and has been nominated to the committee by both Trump and President Joe Biden.

The FCC is an independent agency overseen by Congress, but Trump has suggested he wants to bring it under tighter White House control, in part to employ the agency to punish television stations that broadcast it in a way he doesn’t like.

Carr has recently embraced Trump’s ideas on social media and technology. Carr wrote a section on the FCC in Project 2025extensive plan for gutting the federal workforce and the dismantling of federal agencies in the second Trump administration created by the conservative Heritage Foundation.

Trump claimed to know nothing about the 2025 Project, but many of its themes are consistent with his statements.

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In a statement congratulating Trump on his victory, Carr said he believed “the FCC will have an important role to play in reining in Big Tech, ensuring broadcasters operate in the public interest and unleashing economic growth.”

“Commissioner Carr is a warrior for free speech and has fought against regulatory laws that stifle Americans’ freedoms and drag down our economy,” Trump said in a statement Sunday. “It will end the regulatory onslaught that is crippling America’s job creators and innovators, and ensure the FCC works on behalf of rural America.”

The five-member commission has a 3-2 Democratic majority until next year, when Trump appoints a up-to-date member.

Carr has appeared on Fox News Channel, including when he sharply criticized the Democratic vice president Kamala Harrisappearance Saturday Night Live the weekend before the elections — alleging that the network failed to give Trump equal time.

Carr also wrote in: “He is also a prolific column writer opinion fragment last month to The Wall Street Journal condemning the FCC’s decision to revoke a federal award for Elon Musk’s Starlink satellite service. He said the move could not be explained by “any objective application of facts, law or sound policy.”

“In my opinion, this was simply a regulatory violation directed against one of the left’s main targets: Mr. Musk,” Carr wrote.