US President-elect Donald Trump has nominated Gail Slater to serve as Assistant Attorney General for the Antitrust Division at the Department of Justice. He also confirms that Michael Faulkender has been tapped as Deputy Treasury Secretary.

• Trump said in a statement on Truth Social: "Big Tech has run wild for years, stifling competition in our most innovative sector... I was proud to fight these abuses in my First Term, and our Department of Justice’s antitrust team will continue that work under Gail’s leadership."
• Trump adds: "Gail previously served at the FTC, in my National Economic Council and, most recently, advising Vice President-Elect JD Vance in his Senate office," indicating that Vance - an antitrust hawk - may be influential in directing antitrust policy in the incoming administration.
• FT noted last week: "Slater’s nomination would signify the new administration’s support for a tough enforcement stance akin to that championed by Biden administration officials — including Jonathan Kanter, current head of the DoJ’s antitrust division, and Lina Khan, FTC chair ...."
• Robin Adelstein at Norton Rose Fulbright noted ahead of the presidential election: "Trump's previous FTC and Department of Justice applied aggressive theories to mergers focused on vertical challenges and nascent competitors. His administration also sued Google in a suit that the DOJ recently won. And Trump's FTC sued Facebook.”
• Trump said on Faulkender: "He will help Treasury Secretary Nominee Scott Bessent usher in a new Golden Age for the United States by delivering a Great Economic Boom for all Americans."