Fired FTC commissioner warns of the ‘corrupting influence of billionaires’
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Summary
Democrat Commissioner Rebecca Kelly Slaughter and Alvaro Bedoya, both of whom were fired without cause by President Trump on Tuesday evening, have voiced their suspicions regarding the real reasons behind their unexpected dismissals.
During a hearing at the Colorado State Legislature, Commissioner Bedoya commented: “I think we need to be focused [on the billionaires over President Trump’s shoulder at his inauguration] and what this attempt will do for them… I issued a statement criticising Mr. Bezos for working his people and warehouses so fast, so hard that they literally have to put up vending machines on the warehouse floor, dispensing and capping the amount of painkillers each of those workers has to get.”
Bedoya, among others, is concerned that the corrupting influence of big money donors is an issue which affects us all, not just in terms of political parties, but across the spectrum.
Former Vice President Kamala Harris did not commit to naming President Biden’s FTC Chair, Lina Khan, to the role again, despite her popular backing, with big business donors criticising her aggressive approach to merger enforcement, among other things.