As an immediate result of today’s hearing, the FCC removed a statement from its website that said it is an independent agency. Carr, who has embraced President Trump’s declaration that independent agencies may no longer operate independently from the White House, apparently didn’t realize that the website still called the FCC an independent agency.

Jimmy Kimmel looks at Trump's live speech Wednesday night, FCC chair Brendan Carr's Senate hearing earlier in the day, and reads from the controversial new plaques on Trump's "Presidential Walk of Fam

Congress long ago determined that the FCC is an independent expert agency,’ FCC Chairman Brendan Carr, who now says the agency is not independent, said in 2018.

The EO tasks the agency chair with initiating a proceeding on whether federal AI standards can preempt state laws.

The Federal Communications Commission on Wednesday deleted a longstanding reference to the agency's independence just minutes after a Democratic senator questioned the agency's Republican head on the telecom regulator's authority.

The only Democrat on the Federal Communications Commission says chairman Brendan Carr's belief that the FCC isn't independent leaves news media vulnerable to political pressure.

Chair Brendan Carr suggested on Wednesday that the agency is not independent from President Trump’s administration after being pressed by senators on

In a heated exchange at the Senate Commerce Committee hearing, Sen. Edward Markey (D-MA) called on Carr to resign, citing not just the Kimmel incident but an FCC investigation of a Bay Area radio station that reported on a Trump administration ICE raid.

Brendan Carr, whose office regulates the broadcast TV industry, previously defended the agency’s status as an independent body.