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At today's House appropriations hearing, Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack claimed more research is needed to find out what levels of PFAS are safe in our food supply (we actually already know it’s zero).
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Warren Calls Out Buttigieg, Vilsack For Failing To Stop Monopolies
Sen. Elizabeth Warren called out two major federal agencies for failing to play a meaningful role in President Joe Biden’s antitrust agenda, blasting the #Transportation and #Agriculture departments for letting their powers to block mergers and anticompetitive practices “gather dust.”
In a sweeping speech Wednesday morning at the progressive Open Markets institute, Warren mostly praised the Biden administration’s #antitrust agenda as the start of a reversal of 40 years of corporate consolidation.
She called for the Justice Department to release stricter #merger #guidelines and reverse some past mergers, including the widely unpopular coming together of LiveNation and Ticketmaster.
However, she pointed at a finger at Agriculture Secretary Tom #Vilsack and Transportation Secretary Pete #Buttigieg for failing to do their part.
“If DOT determines a route transfer would harm competition, like JetBlue’s
possible acquisition of Spirit, there’s no need to wait for the [Justice Department],” Warren said, referring to the potential merger of two low-cost carriers. “Secretary Buttigieg has the power to stop anticompetitive airline mergers ― and he should use that power right now.”Warren was even more critical of Vilsack, a former governor of Iowa and longtime Biden ally. She blamed Vilsack for failing to block a merger of Wayne Farms and Sanderson Farms, two major poultry producers in the South, and for continuing to award federal contracts to JBS, a massive food processing company that has been accused of bribery and price fixing.