If Trump Won, What Would Carr Do as FCC Chairman?

Some see Federal Communications Commissioner Brendan Carr, the agency’s senior Republican, as the most likely candidate for chairman of the agency under a second Trump presidency. What would he do if Trump won, and if Carr were selected for the job? Carr actually outlined his priorities for broadband and telecommunications policy in a chapter of the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 policy agenda. The widely available document has been highly criticized by opponents of former President Donald Trump during the presidential campaign: Trump and his campaign have disavowed it. “The FCC’s prior reforms focused on streamlining the rules for small wireless facilities,” Carr wrote of broadband deployment. “The FCC should now explore similar action for the deployment of other wired infrastructure by imposing limits on the fees that local and state governments can charge for reviewing those wireline applications and time restrictions on the government’s decision-making process.”