Elizabeth Warren
US Senator (D-Massachusetts); pressed the FCC over the Paramount-WBD merger deadline.
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Paramount-WBD deal stalls at three gates
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Background
Elizabeth Warren was among the Senate Democrats whose 1 July 2026 FCC Deadline demanding a public response on Paramount Skydance's $110bn takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery passed without a formal reply, one of three regulatory gates the deal stalled at that week.
Warren has represented Massachusetts in the US Senate since 2013 and sits on the Senate Banking Committee, where she has built a national profile scrutinising corporate concentration in finance, technology and, increasingly, media. Before Congress she was a Harvard Law professor specialising in bankruptcy and consumer credit, and helped design the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
Her intervention on Paramount-WBD extends a long pattern of using regulatory pressure and public letters, rather than legislation alone, to slow large corporate mergers she views as anti-competitive, adding a domestic political flank to a deal already facing separate EU merger-control and Foreign Subsidies Regulation scrutiny.
