Jimmy Kimmel, who has been the subject of mounting criticism in right-wing media over the last 48 hours for calling Charlie Kirk’s alleged assassin part of “the MAGA gang,” could face sanctions from the FCC for his comments.

That’s according to FCC chair Brendan Carr, who said in an interview Wednesday that the agency has “remedies we can look at.”

“We can do this the easy way or the hard way,” Carr said on Benny Johnson’s Benny Show podcast Wednesday afternoon. “These companies can find ways to change conduct and take action, frankly, on Kimmel — or there’s going to be additional work for the FCC ahead.”

In his monologue Monday night, Kimmel implied he wasn’t buying reports that the alleged assassin held a leftist ideology, telling his audience, “We hit some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang trying to characterize this kid who killed Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them.”

Carr, a close ally of President Trump, suggested that Disney, ABC’s parent company, should address Kimmel’s comments before the FCC gets involved, even suggesting Kimmel could be suspended. “You could certainly see a path forward for suspension over this,” Carr said.

He went on to urge local network affiliates for ABC and NBC to take action against the networks.

“Frankly I think it’s past time that a lot of these licensed broadcasters themselves push back on Comcast and Disney, and say, ‘We are going to preempt—we are not going to run Kimmel anymore until you straighten this out,’” Carr said. “It’s time for them to step up and say this garbage—to the extent that that’s what comes down the pipe in the future—isn’t something that serves the needs of our local communities.”

Anna Gomez, the sole Democratic member of the FCC, condemned Carr’s remarks on X, saying he was leveraging Kirk’s death “as justification for broader censorship and control.”