Sanders Rebukes Billionaire Effort to Get Harris to Dump Antitrust Champion Khan

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Sanders Rebukes Billionaire Effort to Get Harris to Dump Antitrust Champion Khan
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Major Wall Street donors have mounted a push to oust the FTC chair over her crackdowns on corporate power.

Lina Khan, Chair of the Federal Trade Commission , arrives to testify before the House Appropriations Subcommittee on May 15, 2024 in Washington, D.C.Sen. Bernie Sanders has spoken out against the billionaire effort to oust Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan, a Biden administration appointee who has cracked down on large corporations throughout her tenure.

“Here’s why we have to overturn Citizens United & end Big Money in politics: Billionaire Reid Hoffman donated $7 million to the Harris campaign. Now, he wants her, as president, to fire an outstanding members of the Biden Administration, FTC Chair Lina Khan,” Sanders said in a post on social media on Thursday. “Not acceptable.”has donated $7 million to Harris’s campaign, outright said he “would hope that Vice President Harris would replace her.”, Sanders criticized “the arrogance of Mr.

that Harris is open to the idea. The Harris campaign has said that it has not had discussions about Khan’s future so far — though Wall Street donors have been pushing Democrats Sen.

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