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Trump names Brendan Carr, senior GOP leader at FCC, to lead the agency

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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) 鈥 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.

The FCC is an independent agency that is overseen by Congress, but Trump has suggested he wanted to bring it under tighter White House control, in part to use the agency to punish TV networks that cover him in a way he doesn鈥檛 like.

Carr has of late embraced Trump's ideas about social media and tech. Carr wrote a section devoted to the FCC in 鈥 ,鈥 a sweeping blueprint for and dismantling federal agencies in a second Trump administration produced by the conservative Heritage Foundation.

Trump has claimed he doesn鈥檛 know anything about Project 2025, but many of its themes have aligned with his statements.

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.鈥

鈥淐ommissioner Carr is a warrior for Free Speech, and has fought against the regulatory Lawfare that has stifled Americans鈥 Freedoms, and held back our Economy,鈥 Trump said in a statement on Sunday. 鈥淗e will end the regulatory onslaught that has been crippling America鈥檚 Job Creators and Innovators, and ensure that the FCC delivers for rural America.鈥

The five-person commission has a 3-2 Democratic majority until next year, when Trump gets to appoint a new member.

Will Weissert And Colleen Long, The Associated Press

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