Defunding The Big Tech Police

🔥 Today’s featured Lever story: Trump’s pick to head the IRS wants to wield the agency’s power to shut down nonprofits he disagrees with — including the Humane Society. (We’ve got our eye on Billy Long.)

👇 Spend four minutes reading this 1,061-word newsletter to learn about: 

• The latest victims of Trump’s regulator purge.
• A disturbing trend in the prosecution of corporate criminals.
• The end of free, easy tax filing for millions.
• Where key members of the Biden administration are working next.

🚓 Defunding the anti-monopoly police. In another favor to the president’s allies in Big Tech, Trump administration officials are trying to shutter the San Francisco field office of the Justice Department’s antitrust enforcement division — earning backlash from both Republican and Democratic lawmakers. Closing this regulatory outpost in Silicon Valley’s backyard would undermine ongoing monopolization lawsuits against Apple and Google currently being prosecuted by litigators in that very office. Those cases were brought by both Biden regulators and even Trump’s own administration in his first term.