“President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday selected Andrew Ferguson to lead the Federal Trade Commission, elevating a Republican lawyer who is likely to abandon the Biden administration’s liberal approach to policing mergers while keeping the heat on big technology companies,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
“Ferguson, one of two current GOP commissioners on the five-member FTC, would succeed Chair Lina Khan, a progressive hero who sought to flex the commission’s enforcement muscle in ways not seen in decades. She challenged a range of mergers, as well as business practices by dominant companies. Her term has expired, and she is set to step down from the commission soon.”