FCC Chair says the FCC is not independent
FCC Chair Brendan Carr doesn't care what the website says; the FCC is not independent.
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FCC Chair Brendan Carr doesn’t care what the website says; the FCC is not an independent agency. At least that’s what he told Congress today. Testifying before the Senate’s commerce, science, and transportation agency, Carr, using the overworked semantics that are the backbone of Project 2025 legislation, declared the FCC “is not an independent agency, formally speaking.”
During a surprising exchange, Senator Ben Ray Luján of New Mexico, who didn’t even get to his “gotcha question,” asked whether the FCC was independent because the website says it’s independent. Still, after Carr attempted to give a lengthy answer about how “there’s a test in the law” regarding how we’ve all been misinterpreting the role of the FCC for the last century, Luján said, “It’s yes or no, Brendan! On your website, it simply says, man, ‘the FCC is independent.’ This isn’t a trick question.”
“The FCC is not,” Carr responded. He continued to say that [eye roll] [jerkoff hand motion] the “sin qua non of independence would be removable by the president.”
“Just so you know, Brendan, on your website it just simply says, man, the FCC’s independent,” Luján said. It wouldn’t be for long. Before the exchange, the FCC’s website described the commission as “an independent U.S. government agency overseen by Congress.” However, after the exchange, the site was updated to remove the word “independent.” The Congress.gov website, however, has not been updated.
KIM: Is Trump your boss?
CARR: The president designated chair of the FCC
K: So he’s your boss
C: Look–
