Staff Reports
When FCC Chairman Brendan Carr opened the docket titled In Re: Delete, Delete, Delete on March 12, 2025, he did what conservative Americans elected him to do: take a sledgehammer to regulatory rot and reclaim common-sense governance from a bureaucracy that thrives on complexity. The new initiative asks the public to flag obsolete rules, guidance documents, and red tape that choke innovation and local media, and it puts the agency on record as willing to cut what no longer serves the public interest.
This is not some timid tinkering; the FCC explicitly sought comment on every rule, regulation, and guidance document on the books with the express goal of alleviating unnecessary burdens on entrepreneurs and small businesses. Chairman Carr tied the effort to the White House deregulatory agenda and rightly framed it as a necessary reset after decades of overreach that favored insiders and special interests over ordinary citizens.
For patriots who prize free enterprise and local journalism, this campaign is a breath of fresh air. Cutting deadweight regulations means faster deployment of broadband, lower costs for consumers, and more breathing room for mom-and-pop operations that national regulators have smothered with paperwork. The deregulatory push has already earned notice in conservative circles and among industry observers as a bold attempt to restore common-sense competition and innovation.
Of course, the left and their nonprofit allies predictably howled. A coalition of public interest and civil-rights groups warned that Carr’s approach—especially proposals to let bureaus eliminate rules by direct final rule rather than full notice-and-comment—could erode safeguards and sidestep meaningful public review. Their rhetoric should not distract us from the central fact: Washington’s default is to regulate first and ask questions later, and that default has stifled opportunity for decades.
Chairman Carr has not been shy about executing the plan. FCC statements later in 2025 show the agency methodically cutting thousands of words of obsolete rules and dozens of pages of requirements, targeting truly antiquated provisions tied to technology long past their shelf life. Conservatives should welcome the methodical trimming; agencies must be held accountable to taxpayers and the marketplace, not to the perpetual-growth economy of rules that serve no one but lobbyists.
Now is the time for hardworking Americans to back this effort instead of ceding the field to technocrats and activists who profit from complexity. Speak up, submit comments, and push your representatives to support real deregulation that frees industry and protects consumers rather than expanding Washington’s chokehold on daily life. If conservatives stand firm and make their voices heard, the Delete, Delete, Delete campaign can become a template for returning power to the people and restoring the promise of American prosperity.
