Jake Johnson

One critic called the president's move a "signal to monopolists that they have a clear path."

"The Trump administration is protecting lawbreaking corporate insiders from accountability instead of protecting Americans from corporate lawbreaking," said the author of a new Public Citizen report.

U.S. President Donald Trump's pick to replace the top labor statistics official he fired earlier this month has called Social Security a "Ponzi scheme" that needs to be "sunset."

The Israeli military killed five Al Jazeera journalists with an airstrike on a press tent in Gaza City.

Railroad Workers United expressed opposition to any further consolidation of the U.S. rail system—unless it was brought under public ownership.

"Stuffing private equity, crypto, and other 'alternative assets' into 401(k)s is about propping up scams and bailing out an industry that's run out of buyers," said one critic.

"Trump's definition of 'winning' is hitting the American people with ever-higher taxes," said economist Dean Baker.

"Follow the money," one critic wrote in response to the Justice Department's decision to drop an antitrust case against American Express Global Business Travel.

"The antitrust division has long worked to enforce the law to fight monopoly power, but these attorneys may have been fired for doing just that," said Sen. Amy Klobuchar.

"Looks like there was just an attempted coup at the antitrust division, led by Pam Bondi's chief of staff and a set of corporate lobbyists."