{"id":8689,"date":"2025-04-30T20:35:41","date_gmt":"2025-04-30T20:35:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/gop-reverses-move-to-consolidate-antitrust-at-doj\/"},"modified":"2025-04-30T20:35:41","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T20:35:41","slug":"gop-reverses-move-to-consolidate-antitrust-at-doj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/gop-reverses-move-to-consolidate-antitrust-at-doj\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP reverses move to consolidate antitrust at DOJ"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>House Judiciary Committee Republicans backtracked on a plan Wednesday to centralize all antitrust activities within the Justice Department as they debate their portion of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/04\/30\/congress\/gop-megabill-trump-agenda-medicaid-snap-00317700\" target=\"_blank\">party-line megabill<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe amendment also removes the section that would consolidate antitrust enforcement authorities and resources in the DOJ antitrust division,\u201d House Judiciary Chair Rep. <a href=\"https:\/\/directory.politicopro.com\/member\/51745\" data-person-id=\"51745\">Jim Jordan<\/a> (R-Ohio) said at the markup, as he announced his <a href=\"https:\/\/subscriber.politicopro.com\/f\/?id=00000196-8826-d69e-add7-9baf8b530000\" target=\"_blank\">amended version of the package<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This is a significant reversal after the GOP majority sought to yank antitrust responsibilities from the Federal Trade Commission, a move long sought by conservatives. The <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.house.gov\/meetings\/JU\/JU00\/20250430\/118180\/BILLS-119-HR___-J000289-Amdt-1-U1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">attempt to enact the change<\/a> via the megabill was one of the most promising chances for Republicans to deliver on President Donald Trump\u2019s agenda this Congress.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats and some conservative antitrust proponents criticized the proposed consolidation of antitrust powers.<\/p>\n<p>No reason for the reversal was immediately available. Jordan\u2019s office did not immediately respond to questions.<\/p>\n<p>The markup of the Judiciary Committee\u2019s section of the megabill is ongoing, and committees of jurisdiction will continue to mark up their portions of the package over the coming weeks.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Judiciary Committee Republicans backtracked on a plan Wednesday to centralize all antitrust activities within the Justice Department as they debate their portion of the party-line megabill. \u201cThe amendment also removes the section that would consolidate antitrust enforcement authorities and resources in the DOJ antitrust division,\u201d House Judiciary Chair Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) said at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8689","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=8689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8689\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}