Carr has served at the agency since 2012, including as an adviser to a later chair, Ajit Pai, and has worked as its general counsel. Trump during his first presidency nominated Carr to the FCC in 2017.

“Commissioner Carr is a warrior for Free Speech, and has fought against the regulatory Lawfare that has stifled Americans’ Freedoms, and held back our Economy,” Trump said in a statement.

The commission, an independent agency overseen by Congress, regulates interstate and international communications and implements and enforces US communications law and regulations.

After Trump’s victory, Carr highlighted his priorities, saying that the agency should have a “an important role to play reining in Big Tech, ensuring that broadcasters operate in the public interest, and unleashing economic growth.”

Carr recommended that the FCC limit the scope of Section 230 of the Communications Act to crack down on what conservatives perceive as Big Tech content-moderation abuses. Carr has aligned himself publicly with Elon Musk, traveling to Texas to attend a rocket launch for SpaceX, the billionaire’s space exploration company. Since joining the FCC, he has also advocated for it to be “technology neutral” when it allocates broadband subsidy funding, making more room for satellite providers to compete alongside wired internet providers for federal broadband dollars.Carr has also said video-sharing platform TikTok, owned by Chinese company ByteDance Ltd., should be banned in the US. Trump tried to ban TikTok through an executive order during his last presidency but has now suggested he opposes a ban.