As the Department of Homeland Security and ICE see their budgets balloon, anything unrelated to immigration is getting short shrift.
Matt Stoller and David Dayen talk to Richard Powers, a former deputy assistant attorney general at the Department of Justice, and the former acting assistant attorney general at the Antitrust Division, to discuss the consequences of ignoring antitrust and white collar crime. They discuss the post-DOGE state of the Department of Justice, the culture of prosecution (or lack thereof) that dominated the Antitrust Division through the Obama and first Trump eras, and how to make budgeting antitrust a priority.
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