With the nomination of Commissioner Andrew Ferguson as chair of
the Federal Trade Commission (FTC or Commission) and Gail Slater to
helm the U.S. Department of Justice's (DOJ) Antitrust Division,
the second Trump administration's antitrust policy is coming
into focus.1
Both individuals come from the Republican party's populist
wing, which has expressed skepticism of big tech and other large
companies—a departure from past Republican antitrust
enforcers. But the question on everyone's mind has been what
this means for enforcement and business.
Punchbowl News uncovered the most detailed insight into that important question:
Commissioner Ferguson's pitch to President-elect Donald Trump
for his appointment as FTC chair, which contained Commissioner
Ferguson's policy objectives and enforcement priorities. While
the FTC chair has only one of five votes on the Commission, the
chair has immense power to shape the agency's policy agenda,
allocate agency resources, and
