{"id":46642,"date":"2022-03-28T17:37:32","date_gmt":"2022-03-29T00:37:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=46642"},"modified":"2022-03-28T22:37:55","modified_gmt":"2022-03-29T05:37:55","slug":"a-proposed-227m-increase-for-antitrust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=46642","title":{"rendered":"A proposed $227M increase for antitrust"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Biden is proposing\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nxslink.thehill.com\/click\/27182093.118\/aHR0cHM6Ly90aGVoaWxsLmNvbS9wb2xpY3kvdGVjaG5vbG9neS82MDAwNjctYmlkZW4tYnVkZ2V0LXByb3Bvc2VzLWZ1bmRpbmctYm9vc3QtZm9yLWFudGl0cnVzdC1lbmZvcmNlcnM\/6230d8c8b246d104952dff9aBa27613e8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/nxslink.thehill.com\/click\/27182093.118\/aHR0cHM6Ly90aGVoaWxsLmNvbS9wb2xpY3kvdGVjaG5vbG9neS82MDAwNjctYmlkZW4tYnVkZ2V0LXByb3Bvc2VzLWZ1bmRpbmctYm9vc3QtZm9yLWFudGl0cnVzdC1lbmZvcmNlcnM\/6230d8c8b246d104952dff9aBa27613e8&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1648605379190000&amp;usg=AOvVaw11iuWN5ctRHNhNrg6g7U5j\">funding increases<\/a>\u00a0for the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Department of Justice (DOJ)\u2019s antitrust division as part of his\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nxslink.thehill.com\/click\/27182093.118\/aHR0cHM6Ly90aGVoaWxsLmNvbS9ob21lbmV3cy9hZG1pbmlzdHJhdGlvbi82MDAwMTItYmlkZW4tdW52ZWlscy0yMDIzLWJ1ZGdldC1wcm9wb3NhbC13aXRoLXRheC1oaWtlcy1zcGVuZGluZy1ib29zdHM\/6230d8c8b246d104952dff9aB5cdb539b\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/nxslink.thehill.com\/click\/27182093.118\/aHR0cHM6Ly90aGVoaWxsLmNvbS9ob21lbmV3cy9hZG1pbmlzdHJhdGlvbi82MDAwMTItYmlkZW4tdW52ZWlscy0yMDIzLWJ1ZGdldC1wcm9wb3NhbC13aXRoLXRheC1oaWtlcy1zcGVuZGluZy1ib29zdHM\/6230d8c8b246d104952dff9aB5cdb539b&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1648605379190000&amp;usg=AOvVaw16NvfB47WZsOM7OUOoi2g7\">$5.8 trillion proposal<\/a>\u00a0released Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Biden\u2019s 2023 budget would increase the DOJ\u2019s antitrust division funding by $88 million and the FTC\u2019s by $139 million.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The White House called it a \u201chistoric\u201d increase in a fact sheet, saying it \u201creflects the Administration\u2019s commitment to vigorous marketplace competition through robust enforcement of antitrust law.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The requests to increase the funding come as the DOJ and FTC push forward with antitrust cases against tech giants, including Google and Facebook parent company Meta.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Biden is proposing\u00a0funding increases\u00a0for the&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46642"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46643,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46642\/revisions\/46643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}