Charles Gasparino, writing in the New York Post, says that advisors to former President (and current Republican presidential candidate) Donald Trump are drawing up plans for President Trump to “…. take an ax to the federal government’s vast ‘woke' bureaucracy" if he wins the November election.
According to Gasparino, one of the targets of the (metaphorical) presidential ax will be the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). Under current Chair Lina Khan, the FTC has abandoned the agency's focus on how mergers, acquisitions, and other increases in market power affect consumers. Instead, Chair Khan has adopted a “holistic” (or “hipster”) approach that considers how a business’s actions affect workers, communities, and even—at least in the case of big tech—democracy.
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