Ticketmaster is pulling the plug on the general-public ticket sale for Taylor Swift’s “Eras” tour that was set to take place Friday, Nov. 18.

The company tweeted Thursday: “Due to extraordinarily high demands on ticketing systems and insufficient remaining ticket inventory to meet that demand, tomorrow’s public on-sale for Taylor Swift’s ‘The Eras Tour’ has been cancelled.” It remains unclear whether the general sale will be rescheduled.

The announcement comes after backlash from Swift fans who experienced long waits and “error” messages when trying to purchase tickets during a “verified fan” pre-ticket sale Nov. 15.

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House Democrat Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez called Ticketmaster a monopoly and said the merger with Live Nation should never have been allowed. “They need to be reigned in… Break them up,” she tweeted.

Senate Democrat Richard Blumenthal tweeted that Swift’s tour sale is “a perfect example of how the Live Nation/Ticketmaster merger harms consumers by creating a near-monopoly.”

Congressman David Cicilline, D-R.I., added his voice to the chorus, calling the excessive wait times and fees “a symptom of a larger problem” at “an unchecked monopoly.”

Politicians are not the only ones targeting Ticketmaster. A consortium of organizations, including the American Economic Liberties Project and Sports Fans Coalition are lobbying to end the company’s hold on the ticketing industry with their Break Up Ticketmaster campaign.

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