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Trump picks Brendan Carr to lead the Federal Communications Commission

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WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump announced Sunday that he has selected Brendan Carr to be chairman of the Federal Communications Commission.

Carr is the top Republican commissioner on the FCC, the government agency tasked with regulating radio, television and cable communications.

“Commissioner Carr is a warrior for Free Speech, and has fought against the regulatory Lawfare that has stifled Americans’ Freedoms, and held back our Economy,” Trump said in a statement. “He will end the regulatory onslaught that has been crippling America’s Job Creators and Innovators, and ensure that the FCC delivers for rural America.”

Carr thanked Trump in a post to X.

“Thank you, President Trump! I am humbled and honored to serve as Chairman of the FCC. Now we get to work,” he said in the post.

Carr did not immediately respond to a request for further comment.

Carr wrote the FCC chapter in the conservative playbook Project 2025, in which he argued that the agency’s main goals should be “reining in Big Tech, promoting national security, unleashing economic prosperity, and ensuring FCC accountability and good governance.”

In his chapter, Carr suggested TikTok should be banned if it fails to disentangle from its China-based parent company — an issue on which Trump held conflicting views before he joined the app himself this year. He also called for working with Congress to reform Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act of 1996, which gives social media companies a level of immunity for the content on their platforms and allows them to moderate certain objectionable content “in good faith.”

“Congress should do so by ensuring that Internet companies no longer have carte blanche to censor protected speech while maintaining their Section 230 protections,” Carr wrote in Project 2025’s book.

The FCC is composed of five commissioners serving five-year terms, and only three are allowed to be from the same party, meaning it is bipartisan.

Megan Lebowitz

Megan Lebowitz is a politics reporter for NBC News.

Jillian Frankel contributed.



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