FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler to step down after Trump’s inauguration

FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler has announced plans to step down from his role and leave the agency on January 20th, the day Donald Trump will be sworn in as president.
Wheeler’s decision continues a long-standing norm of FCC leaders leaving the agency when a new president is sworn in, allowing them to appoint a leader of their choosing. But until now, Wheeler had left open the possibility that he would stay around even after Trump was in office — something that, compared to this entire ele