DOGE staffers arrive at U.S. antitrust and consumer protection agency
Source: Reuters
DOGE staffers arrive at U.S. antitrust and consumer protection agency (Federal Trade Commission)
Jody Godoy
Fri, April 4, 2025 at 4:06 PM EDT 2 min read
(Reuters) -Two people working with billionaire Elon Musk on a bid to radically shrink the U.S. government have started work at the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, the agency tasked with enforcing antimonopoly laws and fighting consumer fraud by companies.
Gavin Kliger, who was part of the team that arrived at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in February a week before it started terminating staff, and Emily Bryant are the staffers from the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), which President Donald Trump set up to slash the federal bureaucracy.
FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson "supports the president's agenda to cut out waste fraud and abuse in the federal government," FTC spokesperson Joe Simonson said.
Their arrival will likely cheer the FTC's detractors within the business community, who have criticized the agency and its counterpart, the Department of Justice's Antitrust Division, for continuing cases brought under President Joe Biden and called for the enforcers to be reined in under Trump.
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