A bipartisan group of lawmakers, including Rep. Jerry Nadler, is pushing to restore the $45 million cut to the Dept of Justice Antitrust division budget. They argue that limiting the agency's ability to fight for consumers would harm small businesses, workers, farmers, and families. Tech lobbying efforts to defund the DOJ are criticized as an attack on the rule of law. The lawmakers are urging colleagues to restore antitrust funds for the Justice Department in the upcoming spending bill, emphasizing the importance of trustbusting and fighting corporate concentration.
The DOJ’s incredible record of trustbusting has seriously annoyed the profiteers and they just lost 20% of their funding in a buried provision in the omnibus. Refund the DOJ on March 22! This is existential for fighting corporate concentration
A bipartisan group of lawmakers urges colleagues to restore antitrust funds for the Justice Department in the spending bill set to be considered by Congress this week https://t.co/MpUmg5xJVE
Big tech lobbying’s attempt to defund the United States Department of Justice is an attack on the rule of law itself. Apple and Google must be stopped. https://t.co/Z1muhuKOXa
🚨A bicameral, bipartisan group of 5 lawmakers is demanding that the $45 million cut to the Dept of Justice Antitrust division budget be restored. https://t.co/KC8SlLn59G
.@DeptofJustice’s law enforcement work is vital to protecting America’s small businesses, workers, farmers, and families. My colleagues and I urge appropriations leadership to cut bill language that would arbitrarily limit the agency’s ability to fight for consumers. https://t.co/H4p2mpDXSn