Exclusive | Former leader of New York Young Republicans endorsed by outgoing FCC commissioner to take up post
WASHINGTON — The former leader of New York’s Young Republicans was endorsed Saturday by an outgoing member of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to fill his vacancy.FCC commissioner Nathan Simington told The Post in a phone interview Saturday that Gavin Wax, 31, “would be a great” replacement and had been hearing “buzz” about a potential nomination from President Trump.“I don’t want to get ahead of the president,” said Simington, who has served at the FCC since the Senate confirmed him as Trump’s pick in December 2020, before adding: “Trump has been very smart and creative with his picks in general.And he seems willing to look outside of, I guess, the establishment … or Beltway insiders.”Simington, who previously served as an associate at law firms like Mayer Brown as well as in a senior advisory role at the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, is departing the FCC after his term expired last year and he stayed on in the intervening months as a holdover.Wax is currently serving under the Republican appointee as chief of staff and senior adviser at the FCC.If confirmed, he would be the youngest-ever FCC commissioner since 1945, when Democrat Charles Denny was confirmed at age 32.“I came in as someone whose experience was primarily on the international trading side of wireless finance, and so I’ve been reading a lot of telecom reg[ulations],” he explained.
“Gavin and I have collaborated on a lot of writing, and I think the common thread of tying it together is a desire to take a fresh look at telecom.”“Gavin has spent a lot of effort with me thinking through questions of 5G industrialization.… I would expect [him] to focus on what it means to get smart manufacturing up and running at high scale in the United States,” he added.The two co-authored an op-ed in the conservative Daily Caller last month calling for “DOGE-style” reforms at the FCC to do away with “outdated practices that burden...