Race? Seriously?

Politico describes, "Biden expected to name 2 FCC picks in race to avert Republican majority."

This is not a race, this is negligence.

He's had 9 months to make the appointments, and he knew that he was going to make the acting chair permanent, but for reasons known only to (Perhaps) to Major Biden (which would explain why he is biting people), Joe Biden has fine with the FCC being a 2—2 split for months, preventing meaningfuyl action from being taken:

President Joe Biden is expected to name acting Federal Communications Commission Chair Jessica Rosenworcel to lead the agency permanently, three people familiar with the decision said late Monday — giving her a key perch to shape Democrats’ broadband and net neutrality agenda.

Biden is also expected to nominate progressive net neutrality advocate Gigi Sohn, a former FCC official, to the open Democratic seat on the commission, according to the people, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the decision is not yet public. The people said the White House has begun telling lawmakers about the imminent announcements.

The moves, which could be announced as soon as Tuesday, would give Democrats a majority on the five-person panel for the first time during Biden’s presidency, ending a 2-2 partisan stalemate that has stymied much of the progressive agenda for the FCC. That includes a restoration of the agency’s Obama-era net neutrality rules, which prohibited internet providers from blocking and throttling consumers’ internet traffic.

But the decisions come relatively late in Biden’s term: Of his predecessors, only Jimmy Carter and Richard Nixon waited as late as September of their first year to tap their FCC chair. And unless the Senate confirms Rosenworcel and Sohn by the end of December, Republicans are poised to gain a 2-1 majority on the commission come January.

Taking this long is political malpractice, particularly since the Senate is only 1 car accident away from Republican control.