Andrew Ferguson

But part of what has made President Trump so successful is that he doesn't always think in the conventions that govern D.C.

And I think that this is a really, really good idea to bring someone with Mr. McNeil's perspective here to the commission.

Yeah, I mean, it's one of my main concerns, too.

We're doing a lot on this front.

On the merger review front, my first two merger enforcement actions were in the health care space.

We just won one of those health care enforcement actions last week and several months before.

The judge denied our injunction, but only because after I sued them, they offered to divest the assets that were the problem.

So that was a win for the commission as well.

Another merger enforcement action I brought is about industrial adhesives that are used to build homes.

We have a real home building crisis in this country.

Although under President Trump, home sales went up last year for the first time in a while, we still have a home affordability crisis in this country.

And I have focused intently on the competition side, on making sure that we are active in markets,

grocery, healthcare, homes to try to bring prices down for consumers and to make sure that all Americans get the advantages that come with vigorous competition.

On the other side, I sued Ticketmaster in a groundbreaking lawsuit charging them with having basically inflated all the prices of tickets in violation of multiple federal laws.

Americans have been complaining justly for a long time that it has become almost impossible to take your family to a ball game or to a concert without having to fork over the value of a mortgage payment to do it.

We have been very active in the ticketing space to make sure that those prices are going to come down.

We have been bringing actions on the consumer protection side in the health care space.

We've also been bringing a lot of consumer protection.

cases and competition cases to protect the value of wages against non-competes against job scams the FTC is a little agency our budget is even half a billion dollars but we have returned literally billions of dollars of wrongfully taken money just in the last year back in the pockets of the American consumers we are doing everything we can within our little remit to try to bring down prices and to make this country a more affordable place to live which is exactly what President Trump has been telling us to do

I can tell you definitively I'm not leaving the Federal Trade Commission and I'm not going to the Department of Justice.