Donald Trump in Antitrust, by Amy Klobuchar

On Corporations: Cut the budget & staff of DOJ Antitrust Division

Instead of cutting the Antitrust Division's staff, as the Trump Administration did, (with the exception of the very end of their volatile four year tenure, when both the FTC and the DOJ Antitrust Division budgets were increased), we should be strengthening antitrust enforcement. Only by doing the latter can we ensure free, open, and highly competitive markets. In this era of BIG, now more than ever we need vigorous enforcement efforts to counterbalance runway corporate consolidation and outside power of billionaires and millionaires and monopolies and monopsonies.

Congress must act or make appropriations, not just give lip service to the issue. Agency budgets matter, and the president and Congress should be willing to better fund agencies that work on antitrust issues given the importance of stopping anticompetitive product, protecting consumers, and safeguarding the health of America's economy.

Source: Antitrust, by Amy Klobuchar, p.287 Apr 27, 2021

The above quotations are from Antitrust Taking on Monopoly Power from the Gilded Age to the Digital Age by Amy Klobuchar. Click here for other excerpts from Antitrust Taking on Monopoly Power from the Gilded Age to the Digital Age by Amy Klobuchar. Click here for other excerpts by Donald Trump. Click here for a profile of Donald Trump.
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