{"id":3240,"date":"2024-12-04T19:32:30","date_gmt":"2024-12-04T19:32:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trump-taps-vance-staffer-to-head-dojs-antitrust-division-2\/"},"modified":"2024-12-04T19:32:30","modified_gmt":"2024-12-04T19:32:30","slug":"trump-taps-vance-staffer-to-head-dojs-antitrust-division-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trump-taps-vance-staffer-to-head-dojs-antitrust-division-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump taps Vance staffer to head DOJ\u2019s antitrust division"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President-elect Donald Trump will name his former tech policy aide Gail Slater to head the Justice Department&rsquo;s antitrust division, he announced on social media Wednesday. Slater is a well-known figure in Washington circles and joined the Senate office of Vice President-elect JD Vance earlier this year as an economic policy adviser&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2024\/12\/04\/congress\/vance-staffer-picked-for-dojs-antitrust-job-00192599\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President-elect Donald Trump will name his former tech policy aide Gail Slater to head the Justice Department&rsquo;s antitrust division, he announced on social media Wednesday. Slater is a well-known figure in Washington circles and joined the Senate office of Vice President-elect JD Vance earlier this year as an economic policy adviser&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3240\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}