Scoop: Trump FTC tells CEOs when agency will “get the hell out of the way” on M&A

AXIOS March 11, 2025
Hans Nichols

President Trump’s new FTC chair Andrew Ferguson told a group of big business CEOs on Tuesday that he wouldn’t let proposed deals “die on the vine,” but warned them not expect automatic approval for big mergers.

Why it matters: Ferguson is explaining the Trump administration’s approach to M&A, giving fresh guidance to the group it will need to help bolster the economy and usher in a new age of prosperity.

• “If we think conduct or merger is going to hurt Americans economically, I’m taking you to court,” Ferguson told a gathering of Yale’s CEO Caucus in Washington on Tuesday morning, according to a recording of his remarks obtained by Axios.
• “But if we don’t, we’ll get the hell out...

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