April 4, 2025 – Today, American Economic Liberties Project, Americans for Financial Reform Education Fund, National Community Reinvestment Coalition, and Public Citizen sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Justice, the Federal Reserve Board, and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) urging them to block the proposed Capital One-Discover merger under federal antitrust and banking statutes. 

April 3, 2025 – In response to a report that the Department of Justice Antitrust Division will decline to challenge Capital One’s proposed $35 billion acquisition of Discover Financial Services, the American Economic Liberties Project released the following statement.

April 2, 2025 – Today, as the Trump administration announces its tariffs plan, American Economic Liberties Project’s Rethink Trade Director, Lori Wallach, released this statement.

April 1, 2025 – This afternoon at 2:30pm EST, Morgan Harper, Director of Policy and Advocacy at the American Economic Liberties Project, will testify in the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy, and Consumer Rights for a hearing on “Big Fixes for Big Tech.”

April 1, 2025 – In response to news that Rocket Companies, America’s largest mortgage lender which also has its hand in other aspects of the homebuying business, is acquiring Mr. Cooper Group, America’s largest mortgage servicer, for $9.4 billion—just three weeks after Rocket entered an agreement to buy real estate brokerage and listing platform Redfin for $1.75 billion, and one month after the Trump Consumer Financial Protection Bureau dropped a lawsuit against Rocket for paying illegal kickbacks to real estate brokers who steer homebuyers to Rocket for loans—the American Economic Liberties Project released the following statement.