Washington, D.C. — Following the past few years of concerted attacks on the federal government’s ability to enforce laws on big corporations across the economy, the American Economic Liberties Released a new tool, “Corporations vs. The People,” cataloguing all the suits that corporations have launched against federal enforcement agencies like the FTC, CFPB, FDIC, HHS, and more.

“Corporate America is deeply offended that Biden Administration’s enforcers are finally cracking down on their brazen lawbreaking,” said Nidhi Hegde, Interim Executive Director at the American Economic Liberties Project. “From Meta claiming the FTC’s actions to protect children’s privacy are unconstitutional to exploitative payday lenders arguing the CFPB should not exist, big corporations and their lobbyists have launched baseless suits against nearly every agency that’s holding them accountable. Corporations—often with the support of their paid mouthpiece the Chamber of Commerce—are frightened that their illegal behavior will no longer be tolerated, so they’ve turned to throwing nearly infinite resources at the legal system to cripple our democracy. In the face of these tantrums, consumers, workers, and local communities across the country should feel better knowing that enforcers and watchdogs aren’t backing down.”

Economic Liberties’ tracker serves to catalogue the suits relevant to antimonopoly, labor, and competition policy. In these areas, our research revealed more than two dozen lawsuits against the Biden administration. Notably, the Chamber of Commerce is responsible for at least three ongoing suits against the Biden Administration, attacking the CFPB, NLRB, and HHS.

Economic Liberties’ Tracker includes attacks on the Federal Trade Commission, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, National Labor Relations Board, Department of Labor, Department of Health and Human Services, and others.

Visit the “Corporations vs. The People” to learn more.

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The American Economic Liberties Project works to ensure America’s system of commerce is structured to advance, rather than undermine, economic liberty, fair commerce, and a secure, inclusive democracy. Economic Liberties believes true economic liberty means entrepreneurs and businesses large and small succeed on the merits of their ideas and hard work; commerce empowers consumers, workers, farmers, and engineers instead of subjecting them to discrimination and abuse from financiers and monopolists; foreign trade arrangements support domestic security and democracy; and wealth is broadly distributed to support equitable political power.