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March 21, 2024 — Ahead of a mark up session in the U.S. House Judiciary Committee today that includes the “The One Agency Act,” a bill that would essentially fold the FTC’s competition authorities into the DOJ Antitrust Division, the American Economic Liberties Project released the following statement.

March 21, 2024 — The American Economic Liberties Project today released a new brief “Capital One-Discover: A Competition Policy and Regulatory Deep Dive,” which provides new analysis of the market dynamics at play in the transaction and examines how the proposed acquisition may fare under review from antitrust enforcement and bank regulatory agencies.

March 12, 2024 — As a cyberattack on UnitedHealth Group-owned healthcare payments exchange Change Healthcare continues to paralyze broad swaths of the US healthcare system, the American Economic Liberties Project today sent a letter to the Department of Health and Human Services and Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, calling on them to implement a new electronic claims standard to boost the resilience of America’s healthcare payments infrastructure. The letter comes alongside a new Economic Liberties fact sheet breaking down the Change Healthcare cyberattack and the role of corporate consolidation in driving it.

March 11, 2024 — In response to the release of the White House’s 2025 annual budget—which seeks a modest budget increase for the Department of Justice Antitrust Division but fails to push back against a disastrous Congressional proposal to eliminate a key non-budgetary revenue source—the American Economic Liberties Project released the following statement.

March 9, 2024 — Matt Stoller praises the FTC Chair Lina Khan in The Guardian recognizing her efforts to use the agency's authority to strengthen competition enforcement.