Joe Gabriel Simonson

The Trump-Vance @FTC returned more money to Americans via consumer protection in one year than the Biden-Harris admin did in four years. We are proud of our record.

Interestingly, at the @BullMooseProj's "America First Antitrust Forum" today FTC Chair @AFergusonFTC’s video remarks are substantially about consumer protection: "We need to understand that consumer protection, no less than antitrust, is an effective tool in fighting corporate power and misconduct, and no less than antitrust, consumer protection needs to be an integral part of an America First approach." As he notes, "Now you may be slightly surprised to hear me talk about consumer protection at this conference, but any conservative populist or nationalist who cares about corporate power needs to care about consumer protection no less than antitrust."

Today the Commission has obtained the largest-ever consumer redress recovery under the Franchise Rule: $17 million dollars that will go back into the pockets of hard-working small business owners trying to create new jobs and opportunity in communities across the country. I am grateful to the FTC staff who oversaw this investigation, and I commend @AFergusonFTC for his dedication to protecting American labor markets.

FTC secures settlement against Xponential Fitness for Franchise Rule violations: bit.ly/3PIZWXS /1

FTC secures settlement against Xponential Fitness for Franchise Rule violations: bit.ly/3PIZWXS /1

We are proud to announce the Bottlenecks to Innovation panel at our forthcoming America First Antitrust Forum this Thursday. Our panel includes: @SayreEvan, Principal of CorePoint Strategies. Michele Herman, Founder of JusTech Law; John Taladay, Partner and Co-Chair of Antitrust at Baker Botts. Gene Burrus, Founder of Burrus Competition Strategies. Taylor Hoogendoorn, Deputy Director of the @FTC Bureau of Competition. The panel will explore what's standing between American innovation and a truly competitive marketplace, featuring. Enter the new era of antitrust here luma.com/rhlvlywy

FTC stops proposed merger of leading cataract-surgery device makers. Deal threatened to raise prices and reduce innovation for cataract laser eye surgery systems, impacting surgeons and millions of American patients: bit.ly/4sH3M1S

FTC stops proposed merger of leading cataract-surgery device makers. Deal threatened to raise prices and reduce innovation for cataract laser eye surgery systems, impacting surgeons and millions of American patients: bit.ly/4sH3M1S

.@AFergusonFTC: "This fraud is just siphoning money that millions of Americans pay to fund their hospitals, to fund their daycare centers, into completely fake businesses. It isn’t just unfair to all of us, as taxpayers, who pay for all this, it's particularly unfair to the Americans who need this the most... and this is why this effort is so important."