Polarizing Biden Regulator Tapped By Socialist Mamdani To Lead Transition Team
After securing the New York City mayoral race Tuesday night, Democrat Zohran Mamdani announced that former Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Chair Lina Khan will serve as one of four co-chairs on his transition team. Khan…
After securing the New York City mayoral race Tuesday night, Democrat Zohran Mamdani announced that former Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Chair Lina Khan will serve as one of four co-chairs on his transition team.
Khan, who led the federal antitrust and competition agency under the Biden administration, has been accused by some conservatives of weaponizing the FTC for partisan purposes during her tenure. Mamdani’s transition website hails the former regulator as the “nation’s leading antimonopoly champion.”
The former FTC chair will serve on an all-female transition team appointed by Mamdani, a self-described democratic socialist who campaigned on raising taxes on corporations and on “richer and whiter” neighborhoods.
“What we saw last night was New Yorkers not just electing a new mayor, but clearly rejecting a politics where outsized corporate power and money too often end up dictating our politics,” Khan said Wednesday.
Like Mamdani, who was elected mayor of the nation’s largest city at just 34 years old, Khan was confirmed as FTC chair at only 32. During her tenure, Khan