Trump taps FCC’s Brendan Carr to lead the agency

The FCC’s Brendan Carr testifies during a House Energy and Commerce Committee Subcommittee oversight hearing in March 2022. President-elect Trump has promised to bring the semi-autonomous agency under more direct White House control. Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images/Getty Images North America

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President-elect Donald Trump has picked Brendan Carr, a veteran Republican member of the Federal Communications Commission, to lead the agency that regulates broadcasting, telecommunications, broadband and other related industries.

For much of his career, Carr was seen as a relatively conventional Republican with a pro-corporate outlook. More recently, however, Carr has embraced Trumpian themes about

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