PresidentElect Trump Names Brendan Carr, Senior GOP Leader At FCC, To Lead The Agency
Nov 18, 2024
FILE - Brendan Carr answers questions during a Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation committee hearing to examine the Federal Communications Commission on Capitol Hill in Washington, June 24, 2020. (Jonathan Newton/The Washington Post via AP, Pool, File)WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump has named the senior Republican on the Federal Communications Commission as the new chairman of the agency tasked with regulating broadcasting, telecommunications and broadband.
Brendan 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.
Carr made past appearances on “Fox News Channel,” including when he decried Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris’ pre-Election Day appearance on “Saturday Night Live.”
He wrote an op-ed last month defending a satellite company owned by Trump supporter Elon Musk.