{"id":119721,"date":"2025-05-20T08:07:12","date_gmt":"2025-05-20T16:07:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/05\/20\/trumps-fcc-making-disavowal-of-dei-a-litmus-test-for-merger-approvals\/"},"modified":"2025-05-20T08:07:12","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T16:07:12","slug":"trumps-fcc-making-disavowal-of-dei-a-litmus-test-for-merger-approvals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/05\/20\/trumps-fcc-making-disavowal-of-dei-a-litmus-test-for-merger-approvals\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump’s FCC Making Disavowal of DEI a Litmus Test for Merger Approvals"},"content":{"rendered":"

Democratic FCC Commissioner Anna Gomez criticized Verizon for giving in to Republican Chairman Brendan Carr’s demands. “This is shameful,” she wrote on X. “Capitulation breeds capitulation.”<\/p>\n

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The Federal Communications Commission held Verizon\u2019s $20 billion acquisition of Frontier Communications hostage until the wireless carrier May 15 agreed to jettison its DEI programs.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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That the hardball tactic by President Donald Trump\u2019s hyperaggressive FCC chair<\/a>, Brendan Carr, worked all but assures that other big mergers requiring the agency\u2019s blessing will face the same litmus test. That includes the $8 billion merger<\/a> of Skydance and CBS-owner Paramount as well as cable and broadband giant Charter Communications\u2019 $22 billion acquisition<\/a> of rival Cox Communications.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Democratic FCC Commissioner Anna Gomez criticized Verizon for giving in to Republican Chairman Brendan Carr’s demands. “This is shameful,” she wrote on X. “Capitulation breeds capitulation.” \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Federal Communications Commission held Verizon\u2019s $20 billion acquisition of Frontier Communications hostage until the wireless carrier May 15 agreed to jettison its DEI programs. That the hardball […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":119722,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-law-com"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/legal-news-q4dqWx.jpeg?fit=768%2C633&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119721\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}