FCC Chairman Carr Ends DEI within the Agency

WASHINGTON, Jan. 22, 2025 – A major Biden administration initiative to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion or DEI has been abolished by new FCC Chairman Brendan Carr in a detailed statement Tuesday.

Carr’s statement announced that the agency will be ending the promotion of DEI. This included eliminating the promotion of DEI from the FCC’s Strategic Plan, the FCC’s budget, along with ending the commission's DEI Advisory Group and Task Force.

Carr’s moves tracked with edicts in President Donald Trump’s Executive Order “Ending Radical and Wasteful Government DEI Programs and Preferencing," which Trump signed on Monday.