President Donald Trump’s Federal Trade Commission nominee, Mark Meador, is moving swiftly through the Senate confirmation process. That doesn’t mean the consumer protection agency, with a soon-to-be Republican majority, will diverge significantly its policy agenda from former President Joe Biden’s four-year White House tenure.
The FTC, often referred to as the nation’s “top consumer protection cop,” consists of a Bureau of Consumer Protection and a Bureau of Competition, focused on antitrust regulation. The work of both of these bureaus is overseen by five commissioners, each nominated by the president and confirmed by the Senate. Each has seven-year, staggered, terms, and with the chairman elevated by the president.
With the recent departure of former Biden-appointed Chairwoman Lina Khan, the FTC has been operating with a partisan deadlock.
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