FCC’s last Democratic commissioner doesn’t know why Trump hasn’t fired her yet

Every morning, Federal Communications Commissioner Anna Gomez says she checks her email "to spot if I'm going into work."

At a clip erstwhile the national workforce has been slashed by Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), Gomez's occupation appears to beryllium 1 of the astir precarious successful the US government. She's the past remaining Democrat astatine the present two-person FCC and has been touring the country to talk retired astir actions by President Donald Trump and FCC Chair Brendan Carr, who she says question to censor and power Americans' speech. Gomez has accused her ain agency nether Carr's enactment of "weaponizing" its authorization "to soundlessness critics," and opening "sham investigations" into quality outlets similar NPR, PBS, ABC, CBS, and NBC.

The thought that Gomez could aftermath up 1 time to an email dismissing her is not unfounded. That's fundamentally however the 2 Democratic commissioners astatine the Federal Trade Commission, different bureau of the national authorities that was created to beryllium independent, found retired that Trump was firing them - adjacent though doing truthful without origin breached decades-old Supreme Court precedent.

Now that it's only Gomez and Carr near astatine the commission, since Democrat Geoffrey St …

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