Trump taps FCC member Brendan Carr to lead agency: 'Warrior for Free Speech'

President-elect Trump announced connected Sunday that helium has picked Brendan Carr to service arsenic Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) starting successful January.

Carr, who is presently the elder Republican subordinate of the FCC, was archetypal nominated to the committee by Trump successful 2017. In a connection released connected Sunday night, Trump commended Carr and noted that helium had "been confirmed unanimously by the United States Senate 3 times."

"His existent word runs done 2029 and, due to the fact that of his large work, I volition present beryllium designating him arsenic imperishable Chairman," Trump wrote.

The Republican person went connected to telephone Carr "a warrior for Free Speech" who has "fought against the regulatory Lawfare that has stifled Americans’ Freedoms, and held backmost our Economy."

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Trump commended Brendan Carr's "great work" successful a connection connected Sunday evening. (Getty Images)

"He volition extremity the regulatory onslaught that has been crippling America’s Job Creators and Innovators, and guarantee that the FCC delivers for agrarian America," Trump added.

"Congratulations to Chairman Brendan Carr connected a occupation good done," the president-elect's connection concluded. "Lead america into a large future, Brendan!"

Carr precocious made nationalist headlines aft helium ripped the "Saturday Night Live" formed for platforming Kamala Harris arsenic a impermanent without inviting Trump, which violates FCC rules.

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Commissioner of the Federal Communications Commission Brendan Carr speaks during the 2024 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) successful National Harbor, Maryland, United States connected February 24, 2024. (Celal Gunes/Anadolu via Getty Images)

"NBC has structured this successful a mode that's plainly designed to evade the FCC's rules," the authoritative said soon aft the occurrence aired. "We're talking 50 hours earlier Election Day starts, without immoderate announcement to different candidates, arsenic acold arsenic I tin tell."

Carr aboriginal told Fox News Digital that the Harris quality "[made] wide that ["SNL"] wanted to weigh-in successful favour of 1 campaigner earlier the election."

"That's precisely why, for decades, we've had an adjacent clip regularisation connected the book, is to forestall that," the Republican explained. "Because remember, broadcasters are placed successful a peculiar presumption of trust. They're not conscionable similar immoderate different idiosyncratic with a soapbox connected the corner. They person a licence from the national authorities that obligates them to run successful the nationalist interest."

Brendan Carr, commissioner astatine the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), speaks during a Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee proceeding successful Washington, D.C., U.S., connected Wednesday, June 24, 2020. (Alex Wong/Getty Images/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Earlier successful November, the Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) urged Trump to name Carr arsenic the adjacent FCC chairman, calling him a "great spouse to the men and women successful instrumentality enforcement."

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"Commissioner Carr has much than 20 years of backstage and nationalist assemblage expertise successful communications and exertion argumentation arsenic good arsenic a heavy organization cognition of the FCC," Patrick Yoes, nationalist president of the FOP, wrote successful a letter. "He would marque an outstanding FCC Chairman who volition guarantee the United States continues to pb the satellite successful telecommunications advancements and innovations."

Fox News Digital's Emma Colton and Eric Revell contributed to this report.