American Economic Liberties Project Applauds Intro of the Competitive Prices Act
May 1, 2026 — Every week, American families sit down to pay their bills and wonder why everything costs so much. Groceries, rent, airline tickets, home insurance. Prices keep climbing in industry after industry, and the companies charging them keep posting record profits. Today, Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon introduced the Competitive Prices Act, a bill that would give families, enforcers, and state attorneys general the tools to do something about it.
Economic Liberties Calls for Investigation of QXO-TopBuild Building Materials Merger
May 1, 2026 — Following news of the proposed $17 billion acquisition of TopBuild Corp., the largest distributor and installer of insulation and related building products in North America, by QXO, one of the largest building materials distributors in the country, the American Economic Liberties Project is calling on the Federal Trade Commission, and state attorneys general, including Connecticut Attorney General William Tong, and Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier, to investigate this anticompetitive acquisition.
Economic Liberties Applauds Gov. Shapiro’s Call to Rein In Excessive Utility Profits
April 30, 2026 — This week Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro sent a letter to utility leaders across the Commonwealth laying out three requirements for future rate case proposals, including a demand that utilities justify their return on equity through competitive, transparent market-based processes. The American Economic Liberties Project released the following statement applauding this commonsense move.
Economic Liberties Applauds Introduction of the Lowering Utility Bills Act
April 29, 2026 — Today, Representatives Greg Casar and Josh Riley introduced the Lowering Utility Bills Act, legislation that would cap utility monopoly profits, end bonus incentives for utility shareholders, and ban utilities from charging customers for political lobbying. The American Economic Liberties Project released the following statement in support of the bill and thanking the Congressional Lowering Utility Bill Caucus for taking action.
Economic Liberties Endorses Senate Democrats’ Bill to Unwind Trump-Vance Administration’s Corrupt Merger Wave
April 29, 2026 — Today, as America faces a merger and acquisition (M&A) “boom” characterized by pay-to-play corruption, the American Economic Liberties Project endorses Senator Cory Booker’s new antitrust enforcement legislation, co-sponsored by Sens. Warren, Murphy, Heinrich, and Hirono, which aims to restore competition by making it easier to unwind large mergers completed during the second Trump-Vance Administration.