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Why did the
#F1
stewards give Tsunoda a penalty for defending against Guanyu? There was no contact. Fans want to see aggressive racing. Horseshit penalties like this ruin the sport
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🇺🇸 38 Senate Republicans urge FTC to conduct a fact-based review of pending oil and gas mergers
Democrats want to weaponize merger reviews to help them enact the Green New Deal. Republicans are urging the FTC to follow the rule of law.
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🚨Bombshell story from
@lukerosiak
on how Pierre Omidyar hijacked Biden's antitrust agencies as part of his plan to "reimagine capitalism" in service of woke social goals.
FTC + DOJ Antitrust Division are completely captured by left-wing activists. More:
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.
@NYGovCuomo
really is just making shit up as he goes along, isn't he?
#GovernorOfAction
NEW: Hair salons and barber shops will be restricted only to hair cutting, coloring and styling during Phase 2 of New York's reopening, per newly posted state guidance.
Nail services? Not allowed. Beard trimming? Nope. Nose hair trimming? Negative.
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And thanks to the penalty, Tsunoda finishes outside the points. Unreal. If the stewards really thought Tsunoda pushed Guanyu off, have them switch places. Instead of making themselves the story, the stewards should consider letting the guys race.
#SpanishGP
#F1
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Nobody would accuse
@Jim_Jordan
of being soft on Big Tech.
Jordan is just stating the obvious – the Cicilline
#antitrust
package is a blatant attempt by Democrats to expand the power and resources of the Biden bureaucracy. These bills nothing to address conservative censorship.
.
@Jim_Jordan
EXPOSES the Democrats’ Big Tech legislation for what it is—underhanded bureaucratic empowerment of the Biden Administration.
Watch the FULL
#JustTheTruth
interview on
@RealAmVoice
:
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House Antitrust Subcommittee Ranking Member Ken Buck: “I don’t understand antitrust law”
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Vote still open but House has the necessary votes to curb TikTok. Above 2/3 threshold
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🚨
@GOPoversight
Chair
@RepJamesComer
is investigating
@LinaKhanFTC
's collusion with European regulators to kill the Amazon/iRobot deal.
Story here:
My piece on how Khan colluded with Eurocrats to kill the Amazon/iRobot deal:
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Since the
@Teamsters
donated $5K to
@HawleyMO
, Hawley has:
✅ Flip-flopped on right-to-work laws
✅ Cast the lone Republican vote against the joint employer CRA
✅ Endorsed
@TeamsterSOB
’s Bernie-esque RNC speech
✅ Called the PRO Act a “pretty good piece of legislation.”
The PRO Act is a “pretty good piece of legislation,” Josh Hawley told me. He becomes the first Republican senator to at least tacitly endorse unions marquee bill. Hawley was name-checked by Teamsters’ Sean O’Brien in his RNC speech as a pro-labor R.
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Unhinged lunatic
@TeamsterSOB
is on the RNC floor right now attacking American companies and calling himself the “voice of the American worker.”
Wrong. Trump fought for workers as president. O’Brien steals their money and spends it on progressive causes.
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Tim Wu saying the quiet part out loud-
"Lina has made the FTC relevant again," Tim Wu, former White House adviser on tech and competition policy, told Axios. "She's doing the stuff that Congress should be doing: taking on privacy, noncompetes, and AI."
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🚨 House Oversight Chairman
@RepJamesComer
launches probe into USTR's collusion with left-wing groups, another example of progressive activists dictating the Biden admin's trade and technology policy.
@AmbassadorTai
has been under a bipartisan firestorm for abandoning
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In law school,
@linakhanFTC
said Amazon charges too little. Now, Khan's suing Amazon for charging too much.
A new development in FTC v. Amazon exposes Khan's flip-flop and the intellectual bankruptcy of antitrust hipsters.
My latest for
@NRO
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🚨
@RepJamesComer
continues
@GOPoversight
probe into Biden admin's collusion with left-wing groups 🚨
Progressives pressured
@USTradeRep
into caving on digital trade rules to China's benefit.
Left-wing activists should not dictate USTR policy. 👇
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Did the CrowdStrike outage delay your flight or brick your laptop?
My latest for
@rc_markets
explains how European bureaucrats set the stage for the outage more than a decade ago – and how they are poised to make the same mistake again.
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🚨BOMBSHELL:
@JudiciaryGOP
has just released its highly-anticipated report on
@linakhanFTC
’s Federal Trade Commission.
The report paints a chilling portrait of a dysfunctional agency helmed by an aloof, incompetent, power-hungry bureaucrat.
🧵👇
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"Let’s be clear. If Barr wanted to cover for Trump, he could have crimped the Mueller probe, sat on the report, or redacted it into meaninglessness. He did none of the above.”
Great piece by
@RichLowry
on the absurd Bill Barr scandal
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The fact that former Bernie Sanders staffer and progressive activist Matt Stoller is on the American Compass board tells you why their compass always points left. No wonder why American Compass gets more left-wing foundation money than Planned Parenthood.
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So much for high speed rail!
🚨 Private Jet Pete strikes again:
@SecretaryPete
took a taxpayer-funded private jet to NYC for a radio interview and a meeting with the ACLU, despite multiple forms of commercial transportation being available, according to new records we've obtained.
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Reminder —
@ewarren
’s wealth tax is likely unconstitutional, has failed everywhere it’s been tried, and would double the size of the IRS
#DemDebate
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Last week’s Google antitrust ruling is part of a long pattern of government abuse of antitrust law to protect some firms and punish others.
My latest for
@NRO
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🚨 NEW:
@GroverNorquist
@newtgingrich
and 40+ conservative movement leaders oppose a vote on the motion to vacate – or any scenario in which Republicans would vote with Democrats to remove
@SpeakerJohnson
.
Read the full letter here: 👇
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Well well well, look who thinks he can start tweeting again, cc:
@ComfortablySmug
Colleagues don't know her political leanings
She'd never met the DOJ Crim Division chief
Her only connection to a DOJ leader was to her Trump-appointed sister
Lisa Miller's prosecutorial tenacity fueled her climb to Biden's DOJ fraud leader.
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@harrisonvapnek
@JonathanLidskin
@Grant_salsman
Only missing “climbs the ladder!” and “grabs the loose change”
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My latest piece for
@DailyCaller
dismantles the beltway media lie that there is support for
@linakhanFTC
's agenda in the broader Republican conference.
Lawmakers are in lockstep against Khan's far-left agenda and are working to rein the FTC in.
👇
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.
@GroverNorquist
is out with a new letter pointing out major flaws in the Klobuchar antitrust bill. The manager's amendment out late last night should spook Republican Senators who may be on the fence about supporting the bill.
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Tim Wu, never one to keep his foot out of his mouth for too long, said on CNBC this morning that “of course“ the FTC wants to break up Amazon. He is saying the quiet part out loud - the Amazon lawsuit is about fulfilling
@linakhanFTC
’s political agenda, NOT protecting consumers.
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"Barr is the new Dick Cheney: a stocky, bespectacled, confrontational, blunt, intelligent, unapologetically conservative, experienced, and high-powered official who believes in and fights for the office of the president."
As usual,
@continetti
absolutely nails it. Well done!
Democrats are ready to impeach or arrest Bill Barr. Republicans have found a hero. My column this week via
@FreeBeacon
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Today,
@kamalaharris
will propose a massive Soviet price control regime for American grocery stores.
@linakhanFTC
is already laying the groundwork for it, ensuring life would only get more expensive for American shoppers in a Harris admin.
My latest:
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Straight heat from
@NoahCRothman
on this Democrat manufactured, media-promoted outrage over the PACT Act. Worth your time:
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Hey
@SenatorTimScott
, you dropped this: 👑
.
@SenatorTimScott
rips Senator Dick Durbin for calling his police reform bill a "token":
"To call this a token process, hurts my soul."
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🔥🔥🔥
Elon Musk: "The Democratic Party is overly controlled by the unions"
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New Jersey truly is the worst state in the country. In one tweet, the state’s inept comms team makes its residents look like elitist assholes while simultaneously degrading folks that pump gas for a living
imagine pumping your own g- 🤢🤢imagine pumping your own ga- 🤢🤢🤢 nvm can’t even say it 🤢🤢🥴🤮 🥴🤮
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Looks like the whole "parents should have no say over what goes on in their kids' classrooms" thing isn't a winning message for McAuliffe after all
Parents of K-12 Children:
Terry McAuliffe: 39%
Glenn Youngkin: 56%
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On one hand, the FTC is investigating Big Grocery to “take on” high prices.
On the other, the FTC is set to revive Robinson-Patman Act enforcement, which has historically raised prices and will do so again.
Make it make sense:
Even as US grocery prices have flat-lined (or even fallen) in recent months, the FTC just announced it's going after Big Grocery.
Must be an election year.
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Jennifer Coolidge is the GOAT
Jennifer Coolidge’s speech was perfect:
“I had such big dreams as a young person, but what happens is they get sort of fizzled by life. Mike White, you gave me a new beginning, even though this is the end, 'cause you did kill me off. Even if this is the end, you changed my life”
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We don't care about flat screen TVs or USB ports. We just want clean trains that run on time without catching on fire. Is that too much to ask?
@unsuckdcmetro
The renovated stations will feature twice as many upgraded next train signs (PIDS) with larger 55-inch screens and room for service alerts to scroll along the bottom, making the info you want to see more visible along the platform.
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Only 10% of American workers were unionized in 2023, a drop from 2022. This decline is mainly driven by workers fleeing public sector unions.
Ds want to abolish Right to Work laws because gov't workers aren't buying what union bosses are selling.
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Attacking the E+C Chair and bragging about your disastrous campaign to use American children as human shields isn't quite the slam dunk tweet you guys think it is.
One office told me they got a call from a 6-year old!
More on how this backfired:
Just now,
@cathymcmorris
said: “This morning prior to our hearing, TikTok used its influence and power to force users to contact their representatives if they wanted to continue using TikTok.”
Why are Members of Congress complaining about hearing from their constituents?
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1)
@Teamsters
gave Hawley $5k in April. They spent $9m on anti-Trump/far-left groups from 2019-2022. Rs should follow Trump's lead and embrace union workers, not the failed structures that spend their money on progressive causes.
2) 70% of the corporate tax is borne by workers.
👀 At
@NatConTalk
conference,
@HawleyMO
puts corp tax cuts at top of list of economic policy mistakes from the past generation of Republicans, asks, “Why should labor ever be taxed more than capital? It should not be.” Calls for conservatives to embrace private-sector unions.
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The Biden administration wrongly believes that bureaucrats, not entrepreneurs, know how to grow the economy.
An honor to appear in
@NRO
's pages today to argue that risky bets by entrepreneurs should be celebrated, not stifled by bureaucrats. 👇
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An honor to be here
@FreedomWorks
’s Milwaukee activist fly-in talking about the need to secure our election!
@TomHebertDC
talking about election security and how to promote it for the 2020 election with systems that need to be secure from hackers.
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Left-wing billionaires and foundations give Oren more money than Planned Parenthood and NPR to pretend that progressive economic policy is the way forward for the GOP.
No wonder why you can’t tell quotes from Oren and
@SenWarren
apart:
1. Ideas matter!
@AmerCompass
, a team of seven with a budget below $2M, can serve as a "counterweight" to the entire legacy establishment because we make actual arguments that happen to be right. 100x spent on ad hominems and brute ideological enforcement still loses ground.
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Biden's abysmal debate performance raises an obvious question: who has really been running the country since Biden took office?
Answer:
@SenWarren
and her handpicked cronies in the administration.
My latest for
@NRO
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As avowed socialist and dictator-fetishist
@BernieSanders
marches one perilous step closer to clinching the Democrat nomination, I thought it was appropriate to examine just how bad his presidency would be for taxpayers. My latest for
@townhallcom
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Independent contractors overwhelmingly prefer the flexibility of freelancing to the rigidity of W-2 employment.
Instead of allowing workers to choose how to earn a living, Warren wants to force them into union jobs.
More dues to union bosses = more Democrat campaign cash.
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🚨 In a letter organized by
@taxreformer
, 30+ center-right groups and individuals oppose Joe Biden's politicization of the antitrust agencies.
Read the exclusive in the
@DC_Reporter
here:
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These bills do nothing to address conservative concerns with Big Tech. These are barely
#antitrust
bills.
These are mega-regulation bills that would empower the Biden DOJ and FTC to reshape the economy.
Republicans need to hold firm and vote NO.
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King moves only
Mitt Romney: "I recognize that we may have a Court which has more of a conservative bent than it has had over the last few decades, but my liberal friends have over many decades gotten used to the idea of having a liberal court and that's not written in the stars."
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🚨The
@USChamber
FOIA'd
@USTradeRep
for documents pertaining to USTR's abrupt withdrawal of support for digital trade rules in the WTO.
Documents reveal that the DOJ, FTC, and left-wing outside groups influenced USTR's surrender.
Full report here
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Congratulations on all your success! 🇺🇸
Happy Fourth of July!
From tackling noncompetes that trap workers to taking on monopolies that abuse their customers and bully their rivals,
@FTC
will keep fighting to ensure that all Americans can enjoy real liberty, free from economic coercion.
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.
@linakhanftc
at Yale: Amazon should be broken up for low prices.
Khan at FTC: *sues Amazon for high prices*
Booksellers: We'd like to join FTC v. Amazon by echoing Khan's law school arguments.
@FTC
: No thanks, Khan's law school arguments blow a huge hole in our case.
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Same energy
“IF policymakers had tried to shape the new technologies of the digital revolution”??
Pretty much every technology of the digital revolution was shaped (and often created) by public policy.
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If you're a Biden political ally, you can have all the speech you want. If you represent an industry Biden demonizes, you can't express your views publicly without being accused of breaking the law.
Honored that
@WSJ
published my letter to the editor:
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Broke AOC: “I’m going to run train on the progressive agenda.”
Woke AOC: “I’m the boss! How about that?”
Bespoke AOC: “Our job is to serve, not rule.”
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Every time we see a piece praising the DMA, it is from a company’s perspective, like this Reuters item.
Every time we see a piece about the DMA’s harms, it is from the user’s perspective.
Shows you that the DMA was designed to benefit certain companies at the expense of users.
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Every Member of Congress should read
@CSWilsonFTC
’s important dissent to
@linakhanFTC
’s just-announced FTC mission statement. Put the danger of voting for anti-consumer antitrust legislation in stark relief
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Broke AOC: “I’m going to run train on the progressive agenda.”
Woke AOC: “I’m the boss! How about that?”
Bespoke AOC: “Our job is to serve, not rule.”
I find it revealing when people mock where I came from, & say they’re going to “send me back to waitressing,” as if that is bad or shameful.
It’s as though they think being a member of Congress makes you intrinsically “better” than a waitress.
But our job is to serve, not rule.
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“Conservatives” who support moving away from value-neutral antitrust enforcement to smack around woke companies need to ask themselves a simple question:
“Am I comfortable with giving
this same power to the left?”
The left will beat the right at weaponizing gov’t every time.
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With rumors flying around that Democrats will soon introduce House versions of
@amyklobuchar
's antitrust bills, it's a good time to take a look back at one of my favorite papers from
@Heritage
.
A must-read for any Republican member/Hill staffer.
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💯
"I don’t know where in the hell I belong," said Sen. Joe Manchin when asked about possibly switching parties.
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How can American Moment inject leftism into the conservative movement if conservatives win?
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All time episode. One of the most absolutely bonkers
#CurbYourEnthusiam
episodes in recent memory
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What do you do when the only cuts of meat left in grocery stores are ones nobody wants to learn how to cook?
Learn how to cook them.
See you in 10 hours, 9lb bone-in pork shoulder!
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🚨It has been a HUGE week for House Republican oversight of Lina Khan's out-of-control FTC. 🚨
On Monday,
@GOPoversight
slammed Khan for stonewalling Oversight's investigation and demanded transcribed interviews with 5 senior staffers on Khan’s various abuses of power and
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I am old enough to remember logging into Internet Explorer, chatting with my friends on AIM, getting my news from MSN, and arguing with my parents about setting up a MySpace account on our way to rent a movie from Blockbuster. So-called “monopolies” have a short shelf life!
I'm sorry but this notion that these online companies are "entrenched" is utter bullshit. Meta shaved 67% of its value in the last year alone. Google is showing signs of weakness within its adtech business. The one thing the internet ensures is innovation or death for cos.
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If Lina Khan swoops in to block this merger, MGM continues its slow death and consumers lose. There is no demonstrable consumer harm in this deal. None. On the contrary, consumers will benefit massively by being able to access this litany of new (and classic) content.
Progressives urge FTC to block Amazon/MGM, rn in a lengthy antitrust review. The pressure comes as some Khan allies question FTC's use of warning letters to merging companies instead of opening cases, including allowing a recent recent food merger to close
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Oren Cass knows his tax hike agenda has no support from President Trump on down, so he misrepresents the positions of elected Rs to pretend like he has momentum.
When reporters ask Rs if they support tax hikes, they laugh and say no.
New
@taxreformer
:
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Unbelievably lazy story. Left-wing billionaires pay Oren Cass to pretend that progressive economic policy is "gaining ground" in the GOP.
Cass says tax cuts are a "thing of the past." No mention of Trump's recent promise to cut taxes for every American.
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You guys should hang your heads in shame for publishing this absolute dumpster fire of an article. Pelosi is using an unprecedented global health crisis to push her liberal wishlist, pure and simple. That should be your headline.
NEW: As talks went sideways, congressional Republicans turn to a familiar tactic: Pelosi as the ultimate foil.
It’s a security blanket move that contrasts with Trump’s message to shelve strict public health measures.
w/
@heatherscope
@MZanona
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I used to go out with my friends on Friday nights and have fun. Now, I’m sitting at home portioning out and freezing several pounds of salmon because it was on sale.
#QuarantineLife
comes at you fast
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So much for the
@WhiteHouse
’s last-ditch effort to ram
@amyklobuchar
’s antitrust Trojan horse through Congress post-midterm election. Axios reporting this morning that S. 2992 is deader than a doornail 👀
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I would also note that Wu’s observation is exactly why there are numerous Congressional probes into Khan’s mismanagement of the FTC. Instead of enforcing the laws as passed by Congress, Khan tries to legislate by fiat. Instead of listening to Congress, Khan wants to overrule it.
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#HR3843
is coming up for a vote today.
Democrats want to deliver a last-minute win to 40+ far-left groups and labor unions.
Republicans should stand with
@jim_jordan
@JudiciaryGOP
and vote NO on funneling hundreds of millions to
@linakhanFTC
's coffers.
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Lina Khan has launched a new investigation into "Big Grocery," scapegoating "corporate greed" for high grocery prices.
At the same time, Khan's antitrust agenda is raising grocery prices.
My latest:
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“I, as a Harvard-educated east coast elite, understand the plight of the working man much better than you lesser-educated east coast elites.”
1/ My long-but-worthwhile-read
@nytimes
is about the American political class's self-righteous detachment from the economic and social conditions of its nation.
This is the root cause of present instability and poses the most serious long-term threat to the Republic. 🧵
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The corporate rate is currently 21%, but Democrats want to hike it to 28%. If they succeed in raising the corporate rate, your utility bills would automatically increase.
From
@taxreformer
:
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Congratulations to my friend
@salnuzzo
on this exciting new opportunity! Sal is a great guy and one of the brightest minds in the center-right community. I can't wait to see him thrive and follow his great work as executive director of Consumers Defense.
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The Pelosi plan to repeal the SALT cap would be a massive giveaway to her rich, liberal, artisan ice cream enthusiast friends. JCT estimates that 94% of the benefit would go to taxpayers making more than $200k a year:
Looks like Pelosi's idea to roll back the SALT cap made it into the bill. (h/t
@danielmarans
)
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Khan is setting down the marker that the FTC can block acquisitions merely to prevent big companies from getting bigger, even if they don’t reduce competition or harm consumers. This will chill investment and innovation, and it deserves a burial in court.
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Spotted by ... your own campaign?
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Two things:
1) European laws designed to weaken American companies like Apple are clearly working.
2) Companies compete fiercely and have a natural lifecycle. Antitrust cases that presume markets are set in stone – like DOJ v. Apple – are idiotic and anti-consumer.
Apple loses smartphone crown to Samsung as Chinese rivals gain ground
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Morelle’s Republican opponent still has yet to comment on the ethics investigation. Instead, he posted yesterday about buying custom shirts, going to a tailor, and stopping by a BBQ. Insanity.
#NY25
#ROC
Fantasy politics: If only Cheryl Dinolfo had been the Republican candidate for Congress.
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I rarely have kitchen disasters. When I do, they are big, beautiful disasters
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Strong resignation letter from
@CSWilsonFTC
in protest of
@linakhanFTC
's flagrant, rampant abuse of power. Congress clearly needs to step in and rein Khan in before it is too late.
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Politico is such a left-wing rag. The scary framing is complete bullshit. Doug is going to be a fantastic addition to the FTC.
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Pouring myself a large glass of bourbon and logging off this website for tonight. I think that’s what this dynamic duo would have wanted. Together again at last. 🙏🏻🙏🏻
#RIPRBG
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