President-elect Donald Trump's nominee to chair the Federal Communications Commission announced early Monday that the agency's focus on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) will end next year.
Brendan Carr, currently the FCC's senior Republican commissioner, posted excerpts from the agency's statement. Budget request for fiscal year 2025 At X, we state that our second-highest strategic goal is to advance DEI.
“The FCC’s latest budget request states that advancing DEI is the agency’s second-highest budget. [sic] strategic goals. “Starting next year, the FCC will end its DEI push,” Kerr wrote.
The only strategic goal listed before pushing DEI was to pursue a 100% broadband policy.
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Brendan Carr, the FCC's current senior Republican commissioner and President-elect Donald Trump's choice to chair the FCC, said the agency will stop promoting DEI in 2025. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc, via Getty Images)
The agency said in part that it would “gain a deeper understanding of how this is done.” [its] Regulations, policies, and programs can promote or hinder progress in diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility. ”
The FCC's fiscal year 2025 budget includes goals by pursuing “focused actions and investments” to eliminate barriers that “perpetuate disadvantaged or underserved individuals and communities.” said that it would be achieved.
“Furthermore, the FCC recognizes that employees are more effective when they reflect the experiences, judgments, and opinions of individuals from diverse backgrounds,” the section concluded. “Improving equity is at the core of agency management and policy-making processes and will benefit all Americans.”
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The four goals identified after promoting DEI were to empower consumers, strengthen public safety and national security, improve America's global competitiveness, and promote operational excellence. Ta.
The FCC listed advancing DEI as the second-highest strategic goal in its fiscal year 2025 budget request. (Reuters/Andrew Kelly/File Photo)
Carr followed up his first post with a GIF captioned, “When it comes to the FCC's push for DEI, there's only one thing I have to say: Ahuela (get out)!”
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President Trump announced on Sunday that he would choose Carr to lead the FCC, calling him a “free speech fighter” and someone who will “ensure the FCC serves rural America.” .
President-elect Trump praised Brendan Carr's “great job” in a statement Sunday night announcing his selection as FCC chairman. (Getty Images)
Carr was first appointed to the committee in 2017 during President Trump's first term and has continued to serve on the committee under President Biden, having been unanimously confirmed by the Senate three times.
