Regulatory Policy Experts: Both Harris and Trump Threaten Constraints on Innovation

CEI expert contributed to this The Dispatch piece

The outlook for America’s tech industry is no more certain under another Trump administration. Vice presidential nominee Sen. J.D. Vance of Ohio told a Bloomberg technology forum, “I guess I look at Lina Khan as one of the few people in the Biden administration that I think is doing a pretty good job,” in reference to her antitrust work. That’s in conflict with Trump’s promise to shrink the power of the bureaucracy generally, but Trump was an outspoken critic of tech industry leaders while he was in office. 

As Harris’ aides claim she’s moving to the middle on many policy issues and Trump remains willing to buck the GOP’s traditional slant toward pro-business policies, America’s tech consumers are not assured of having their interests returned to the heart of U.S. antitrust law under either administration. 

—Jessica Melugin, director of the Center for Technology & Innovation at the Competitive Enterprise Institute

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