American Prospect, July 26, 2024, The Corporate Wishcasting Attack On Lina Khan
With all of that influence, Hoffman feels that gives him the right to dictate a potential future president’s regulatory policy. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) said plainly that it’s “unacceptable” for a donor to use money to influence Harris’s personnel decisions.
I probably don’t have to recount Khan’s record for Prospect readers, so I’ll outsource the nickel summary to Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), who sent over this statement to the Prospect: “Chair Khan has done an excellent job as part of the Biden-Harris administration’s broader competition agenda and should of course continue her work lowering costs, protecting workers, and supporting entrepreneurs—it’s a big reason the economy is growing strong as we saw with today’s GDP data.”
This gets at an important point: A successful government actually depends on people who know how to work the levers of power to serve the public interest. You can’t get a whole lot done on what Joe Biden and Harris profess to be their agenda without people like Khan and her colleagues managing to govern.
