President-elect Trump picked Brendan Carr, a career telecommunications lawyer and regulator, to lead the Federal Communications Commission as the agency’s next chairman.Carr is the senior Republican on the five-member commission and has championed many of Trump’s causes.

Brendan Carr, a critic of the Biden administration's telecom policies and Big Tech, is currently the top Republican on the FCC.

Carr has history with the FCC. He’s worked at the agency since 2012, including as its general counsel. Trump appointment Carr to commissioner in 2017, and he was renominated by President Joe Biden in 2023. As the senior most Republican commissioner, many expected Carr’s appointment.