Trump HHS and RFK Jr. Gut Public Input, Silencing Americans on Critical Health Policy Decisions
February 28, 2025 -- Following news that the Trump administration’s Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), under Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has proposed a drastic rollback of public participation in its decision-making process, the American Economic Liberties Project released the following statement
Lowering Egg Prices Starts with Stopping Big Ag’s Monopoly Power and Anticompetitive Tactics, Not Corporate Subsidies
February 28, 2025 -- In a Wall Street Journal opinion piece this week, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins outlined the Trump administration’s plan to address rising egg prices and shortages. Rather than tackling the root causes of high prices—corporate price gouging and industry consolidation—her plan consists of handing hundreds of millions of dollars in subsidies to massive agribusinesses and cutting regulations that protect fair competition. In response, the American Economic Liberties Project released the following statement urging the administration to pursue real solutions outlined in a recent letter from Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and other members of Congress.
Trump Administration Must Choose between Big Tech and U.S. Sovereignty as Industry Seeks to Weaponize Trade Policy to Attack Data Security, Privacy Policies in Other Nations that U.S. Has Also Adopted
February 26, 2025 -- Congress and federal agencies and U.S. states have adopted the same sorts of data security and privacy policies that Big Tech lobbyists are pushing President Trump to attack as the “illegal trade barriers,” a report released by Rethink Trade and the American Economic Liberties Project (AELP) revealed.
Economic Liberties Applauds Michigan House for Advancing Legislation to Ban Secret Deals
February 25, 2025 -- Following news that the Michigan House of Representatives has voted 80-28 to advance HB 4052 and HB 4053, a bill that would ban lawmakers and their staff from entering into nondisclosure agreements—which are often used to push through corporate subsidy deals in secret—the American Economic Liberties Project released the following statement.
New Report on “Surveillance Pricing” Exposes Harm to Workers and Consumers, Urges Public Enforcers and State Policymakers to Act
February 20, 2025 - Corporations are using mass surveillance and hidden algorithms to illegally inflate prices for consumers and suppress wages for workers, a new report from anti-monopoly, tech policy, workplace justice, and consumer rights advocates reveals.