FCC’s Brendan Carr also suggests an investigation could be relevant to conservative congressional efforts to defund the public broadcasters.

Now, Trump’s FCC Chair, Brendan Carr, has sent a letter to public broadcasters NPR and PBS saying that he plans to investigate them for potentially having violated federal law. In the very same letter,

FCC chairman Brendan Carr, a Project 2025 author and right-wing critic of the media, launched probes into National Public Radio and the Public Broadcasting Service, outlets that have been often been targeted by conservatives.