""took the extraordinary step to pressure the FCC-an independent agency that is designed to operate outside undue political influence from the Executive Branch.""
""consider using their authorities""
""pressure[d] an independent agency into grabbing power that the Legislative Branch never said it had delegated.""
""The White House did not let the FCC chair do his job,""
Brendan Carr argued that presidents should not publicly urge the FCC to take specific actions, calling such pressure an extraordinary intrusion on an independent agency. Carr criticized President Biden's 2024 push to reinstate net neutrality and cited a 2021 executive order asking agencies to "consider using their authorities" for pro-competitive policies as evidence of undue influence. Carr said President Obama similarly "pressure[d] an independent agency into grabbing power that the Legislative Branch never said it had delegated" after a 2014 video urging reclassification of broadband. The FCC is independent by design but shifts with presidential appointments, and Carr now uses the FCC to advance Trump-aligned objectives.
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