Project 2025: Brendan Carr's Agenda for the FCC

In January 2023, Spencer Chretien—a former Special Assistant to President Donald J. Trump and Associate Director of Presidential Personnel—introduced Project 2025, an effort organized by the Heritage Foundation "to lay the groundwork for a White House more friendly to the right." At the time, some 45 right-of-center organizations were working together on "restoring this country through the combination of the right policies and well-trained people." One pillar of Project 2025 is Heritage's 180-day Transition Playbook—called Mandate for Leadership—which includes a transition plan for each federal agency. Heritage warns that few appointments to federal independent regulatory agencies will be as important as the President’s selection of the next chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr wrote the playbook chapter on the FCC. The chapter does not purport to set forth a comprehensive agenda for the FCC. Rather, it focuses on selected issue areas that may quickly rise to the attention of a new Administration. The four identified policy priorities are:

1. Reining in Big Tech
2. Protecting America’s National Security
3. Unleashing Economic Prosperity
4. Holding Government Accountable