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Trump’s chaos is threatening the bipartisan movement to break up Big Tech

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At Y Combinator's Little Tech Competition Summit , there was an air of optimism and camaraderie among a surprising crowd.

But beneath the surface lay tensions about whether Trump ’s dismantling of administrative agencies was undercutting a robust antitrust agenda.

“If you want to govern in ways that checks the power of Big Tech or other monopolists, you need a government,” Lina Khan said.

At a panel about the past, present, and future of the FTC , former commissioners of different parties waxed poetic about the historical bipartisanship of the agency.

But former Democratic FTC commissioner Terrell McSweeny threw cold water on the discussion.

“You guys are dancing around the thing that I think we really need to talk about,” she said.

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