Sanders Rebukes Billionaire Effort to Get Harris to Dump Antitrust Champion Khan

[Uncle Joe]

Lina Khan, Chair of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), arrives to testify before the House Appropriations Subcommittee on May 15, 2024 in Washington, D.C.
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“Here’s why we have to overturn Citizens United & end Big Money in politics: Billionaire Reid Hoffman donated $7 million to the Harris campaign. Now, he wants her, as president, to fire an outstanding members [sic] of the Biden Administration, FTC Chair Lina Khan,” Sanders said in a post on social media on Thursday. “Not acceptable.”

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In comments to CNN, Sanders criticized “the arrogance of Mr. Hoffman” and said that Khan was one of the best FTC chairs in history. “Billionaires should not be telling candidates who to be keeping on or not,” he told the outlet. “This concerns me because Lina Khan is doing a great job and I would hope and expect that the VP, if she wins, keeps her on.”

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Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Massachusetts) has also spoken in favor of Harris keeping Khan, saying in a statement that “Chair Khan has done an excellent job as part of the Biden-Harris administration’s broader competition agenda and should of course continue her work lowering costs, protecting workers, and supporting entrepreneurs — it’s a big reason the economy is growing strong as we saw with today’s GDP data,” referring to Thursday’s news that the U.S. GDP is growing at a 2.8 percent annual rate.

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Under Khan, the FTC has taken on some of the largest corporations in America, including tech giants like Amazon, Microsoft and Meta, pharmaceutical giants like Amgen, and other giants like Kroger. It also created a new rule banning employers from including noncompete clauses in worker contracts, a move that the agency said would raise worker wages by $300 billion annually.

https://truthout.org/articles/sanders-rebukes-billionaire-effort-to-get-harris-to-dump-antitrust-champion-khan/

[Autumn]

1. Reid Hoffman should fuck of, shut the fuck up and sit down.

[alarimer]

2. These money people want to control everything.

And the sad thing is, they often get their way.

I hope Harris ignores him, but I’m not optimistic.