{"id":67325,"date":"2026-02-25T14:56:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T19:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/25\/house-democrats-open-inquiry-into-ouster-of-us-antitrust-chief-gail-slater\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T14:56:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T19:56:13","slug":"house-democrats-open-inquiry-into-ouster-of-us-antitrust-chief-gail-slater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/25\/house-democrats-open-inquiry-into-ouster-of-us-antitrust-chief-gail-slater\/","title":{"rendered":"House Democrats open inquiry into ouster of US antitrust chief Gail Slater"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: Jamie Raskin, top Democrat on the House judiciary committee, asks for justice department briefing<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2026\/feb\/25\/donald-trump-state-of-the-union-us-politics-iran-latest-news-updates\">US politics live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>House Democrats on Wednesday demanded a briefing from the justice department on the removal of Gail Slater, who was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/feb\/12\/us-antitrust-gail-slater-ousted-trump-administration\">forced to resign as head of the antitrust division<\/a> this month under a cloud of controversy and fraught tensions with her bosses inside the Trump administration.<\/p>\n<p>The request from Jamie Raskin, the top Democrat on the House judiciary committee, and Jerry Nadler, a Democratic New York congressman, marked the first step in what is almost certain to become a much larger investigation should Democrats reclaim the House majority in the midterm elections and gain subpoena power.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/feb\/25\/house-democrats-antitrust-gail-slater-inquiry\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: Jamie Raskin, top Democrat on the House judiciary committee, asks for justice department briefing US politics live \u2013 latest updates House Democrats on Wednesday demanded a briefing from the justice department on the removal of Gail Slater, who was forced to resign as head of the antitrust division this month under a cloud of &#8230; <a title=\"House Democrats open inquiry into ouster of US antitrust chief Gail Slater\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/25\/house-democrats-open-inquiry-into-ouster-of-us-antitrust-chief-gail-slater\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about House Democrats open inquiry into ouster of US antitrust chief Gail Slater\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67325\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}