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WASHINGTON (Reuters)
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday tapped Gail Slater, an antitrust veteran and economic adviser for JD Vance, to lead the Department of Justice's antitrust division and take charge of a full docket of blockbuster monopoly cases against companies, including Google, Visa and Apple.
Slater is expected to continue the department's crackdown on Big Tech, including cases brought during Trump's first term in the White House, Trump wrote in a post on his social media platform.
"Big Tech has run wild for years, stifling competition in our most innovative sector and, as we all know, using its market power to crack down on the rights of so many Americans, as well as those of Little Tech!" Trump said.
Slater served on the White House's National Economic Council in 2018, where she worked on Trump's executive order on national security concerns over Chinese telecommunications equipment.
Before joining Vance's office, Slater worked at Fox Corp and Roku.
Vance, the U.S. vice president-elect, has said antitrust enforcers should take a broader approach to antitrust enforcement and praised the work of Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan.
Slater will take over a number of high-profile cases in which some of the world's largest companies are accused of illegally building and protecting monopolies.
Trump said Slater will "ensure that our competition laws are enforced, both vigorously and FAIRLY, with clear rules that facilitate, rather than stifle, the ingenuity of our greatest companies."
