House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy once said that his vision was “to have government as innovative as Google, customer-centric as Apple, and as quick as Amazon.”

Now, he’s the man charged with leading the GOP’s battle against Big Tech — a position that will become particularly important if his party wins back the House and he becomes speaker next year. He put out a policy framework last year to “stop the bias and check big tech,” laying out a plan to rein in giants like Google and Amazon if Republicans regain power.

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“They obviously don’t want antitrust,” said Matt Stoller, director of research for the left-leaning advocacy group American Economic Liberties Project. “That’s their history, it’s their track record. They opposed the antitrust investigation of Big Tech, they oppose these laws. There literally is nothing to indicate that they want to do anything but protect Silicon Valley.”