Trump’s likely FCC chair wrote Project 2025 chapter on how he’d run the agency

The Republican who is likely to lead the Federal Communications Commission under President-elect Donald Trump detailed how he would run the agency when he wrote a chapter for the conservative Heritage Foundation's Project 2025. Federal Communications Commissioner Brendan Carr, a longtime opponent of net neutrality rules and other broadband regulations, has also made his views clear numerous times when opposing rulemakings initiated by the current Democratic majority. If Trump makes Carr the next FCC chairman after his inauguration, the FCC is likely to ditch consumer protection initiatives, like a recently announced inquiry into data caps, and attempt to regulate Big Tech companies while reducing regulation of Internet service providers. That could include forcing Big Tech companies to pay into a fund that subsidizes internet service providers' broadband network construction. A Carr-led FCC could also try to punish news organizations that are perceived to be anti-Trump. Carr might also try to steer money to Elon Musk's Starlink system.

[See Project 2025: Brendan Carr's Agenda for the FCC]