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Trump's antitrust cops offer new signal they won't be more lenient than Biden

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President Trump ’s new FTC chairman Andrew Ferguson is keeping in place stricter Biden -era standards for policing US mergers.

The guidelines, which are not legally binding, were adopted in 2023 during the tenure of predecessor Lina Khan .

They take a more rigorous approach by expanding the conditions that trigger antitrust review, like lowering thresholds for presuming a proposed merger violates antitrust law.