Nine founding members including Representatives Pramila Jayapal (WA-07), Chris Deluzio (PA-17), Pat Ryan (NY-18), and Angie Craig (MN-02) launched the Monopoly Busters Caucus on Wednesday, a new caucus tasked with “fighting corporate greed and promoting a pro-worker, pro-consumer, and pro-small business economic agenda.”

The following statement can be attributed to Sumit Sharma, Executive Director for NextGen Competition (nextgencomp.tech):

“We’ve long urged Congress to take a more active role in promoting robust competition and curbing harmful business practices. The creation of a ‘Monopoly Busters’ caucus is a critical first step in this process, and we commend Representatives Pramila Jayapal, Chris Deluzio, Pat Ryan, and Angie Craig for their proactive leadership.

Assembling champions in Congress like Representatives Becca Balint, Greg Casar, Maggie Goodlander, Jerrold Nadler, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Jan Schakowsky, and others who are willing to challenge tech giants like Apple, Amazon, Google, Meta, and Microsoft will be a key asset in ensuring effective and efficient antitrust enforcement. We look forward to tracking the caucus’s progress and supporting its efforts.”

About NextGen Competition

NextGen Competition is on a mission to create a fair and competitive technology ecosystem that empowers consumers, workers, and small businesses by supporting robust enforcement of antitrust laws and policies. Our aim is to enable many independent technology companies to innovate, compete, and offer differentiated services, and to rectify the profound imbalance of power that allows the largest technology firms to unilaterally set terms and conditions for everyone, use our data, and capture our attention without meaningful constraints.