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... When the Biden-era FCC reinstated Obama-era net neutrality rules in 2024, Carr alleged that President Biden "took the extraordinary step to pressure the FCC"an independent agency that is designed to operate outside undue political influence from the Executive Branch."

As evidence, Carr pointed to a 2021 executive order in which Biden called on agency heads to "consider using their authorities" for various types of pro-competitive policies, including the adoption of net neutrality rules.

Carr said that President Obama similarly "pressure[d] an independent agency into grabbing power that the Legislative Branch never said it had delegated."

Obama's intrusion into this independence, according to Carr, came in November 2014 when the president released a two-minute video urging the agency to implement net neutrality rules and reclassify broadband providers as common carriers. ...

But Carr couldn't have been clearer about his belief that the president should not publicly urge the FCC to take specific actions. "The White House did not let the FCC chair do his job," Carr said last year, referring to the events of 2014 and 2015 involving Obama and then-FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler. "The president intervened. He flipped him."

But then Donald Trump won a second term in office and promoted Commissioner Carr to the position of FCC chairman in January 2025.

A few weeks later, Trump issued an executive order declaring that historically independent agencies could no longer operate independently from the White House. ...