Congress pushed to bolster FTC and DOJ antitrust budgets

Ben Remaly

01 June 2021

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The White House has asked Congress to increase the respective budgets of the Federal Trade Commission’s competition bureau and Department of Justice’s antitrust division by about 17% and 6% for the next fiscal year.

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