 The group says employees can wait months or years until agencies clear them of wrongdoing, which puts their careers at risk. Jory Heckman, Federal News Network. And House Democrats say a top official at the Federal Communications Commission helped write a policy blueprint for a new Trump administration. Now they're calling on government ethics officials to investigate. Lawmakers say FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr, a Trump appointee, wrote an entire chapter of the Heritage Foundation's Project 2025 calling for major changes to his own agency.