Economic Liberties Challenges 119th Congress to Take Big Swings to Tackle Corporate Power 

May 6, 2025 Press Release

Washington, D.C. — The American Economic Liberties Project today released a new policy agenda for antimonopoly champions in the 119th Congress to rein in concentrated corporate power and build a fairer economy for workers, small businesses, and families. The policy agenda includes a series of legislative ideas and policy proposals across sectors for legislators looking to fight back against concentrated corporate power and create the economic space for growth and prosperity.

“In a moment defined by economic uncertainty and the collapse of old political assumptions, now is the time for big ideas to improve the lives of American families and level the economic playing field for honest businesses of all sizes,” said Morgan Harper, Director of Policy and Advocacy at the American Economic Liberties Project. “The public is fed up with being exploited by monopolies and middlemen—from Big Tech and Big Ag to Wall Street and Big Medicine—and they’re hungry for reforms that steer our country toward a fairer future and check the undue influence that corporations hold over their lives and our democracy. This agenda gives Congress a blueprint to deliver real change, restore democratic control over our markets, and allow Americans to move beyond just making ends meet to building real economic power.”

The policy agenda includes previously introduced pieces of legislation, new legislative ideas, and recommendations for congressional oversight to pressure the executive branch to take action. The agenda is organized in two sections: market-specific legislation for particular industries—food and agriculture, airlines, healthcare, housing, Big Tech, finance, defense, industrial policy, and shipping— and cross cutting policies that tackle trade, fair pricing, antitrust agency empowerment, labor, court reform, and more.

Read the full policy agenda here.

Learn more about Economic Liberties here.

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The American Economic Liberties Project works to ensure America’s system of commerce is structured to advance, rather than undermine, economic liberty, fair commerce, and a secure, inclusive democracy. Economic Liberties believes true economic liberty means entrepreneurs and businesses large and small succeed on the merits of their ideas and hard work; commerce empowers consumers, workers, farmers, and engineers instead of subjecting them to discrimination and abuse from financiers and monopolists; foreign trade arrangements support domestic security and democracy; and wealth is broadly distributed to support equitable political power.