18 Sep 2025 4:37 pm
----------------------------------------------------------------------Several House Democratic leaders accused Carr of "engag[ing] in the corrupt abuse of power. He has disgraced the office he holds by bullying ABC, the employer of Jimmy Kimmel, and forcing the company to bend the knee to the Trump administration. FCC Chair Brendan Carr should resign immediately." The top Democrat on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee plans an investigation.Anna Gomez, the only Democrat on the Republican-majority FCC, said the Kimmel suspension is "cowardly corporate capitulation by ABC that has put the foundation of the First Amendment in danger." She said the "FCC does not have the authority, the ability, or the constitutional right to police content or punish broadcasters for speech the government dislikes," but that "billion-dollar companies with pending business before the agency" are "vulnerable to pressure to bend to the government's ideological demands."