Trump will nominate FCC general counsel to be GOP commissioner

President Trump will nominate Brendan Carr, currently serving as general counsel at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), to be the third Republican commissioner at the agency, a White House spokesman told The Hill.

Before being tapped as the FCC’s acting general counsel earlier this year, Carr was a top adviser to Chairman Ajit Pai when he was a commissioner in the GOP minority.

{mosads}Carr will likely be a close ally to Pai as the chairman pushes his proposal to kill the FCC’s Obama-era net neutrality rules.

Trump has also nominated former Democratic Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel to another five-year term, and the two are likely to be confirmed together.

If the two are confirmed, the FCC will once again be operating with a full complement.

The news was first reported by Recode.