President Donald Trump’s nominee to head the Justice Department’s antitrust division said she would weigh how many resources would be needed to bring or continue cases against Big Tech companies before determining whether the effort is worth the cost.
“Resources are of course [a] very important consideration in antitrust litigation,” said Gail Slater, a longtime competition lawyer who served in the White House in Trump’s first term as well as under Vice President JD Vance when he was in the Senate. “It’s very complex civil litigation, as you know, and costly, so that would be a consideration.”
