Big Tech’s Relentless Influence on Trade Policy
How even Biden’s best officials are subject to insidious corporate pressure
JULY 25, 2023
A tenuous alliance between the Biden administration’s leading antitrust officials and Biden’s chief trade official is testing whether the administration will keep its commitment to prevent trade deals from being used by powerful industries to undermine progressive regulation. The officials in question are FTC Chair Lina Khan, the head of the Justice Department’s Antitrust Division Jonathan Kanter, and U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai. All are progressives, and all are under intense pressure from industry lobbyists, as well as from not-so-progressive people at the Commerce Department.