Taxpayers Protection Alliance Foundation Announces Launch of FTC Mission Creep

For Immediate Release                                               Contact: Courtney Mattison (202) 525-7492

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the Taxpayers Protection Alliance Foundation (TPAF) launched a new project to monitor the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) called, FTC Mission Creep. As part of ongoing work by TPAF, FTC Mission Creep reports on the FTC’s continuing legal and economic overreaches. Since President Joe Biden took office, the FTC has increasingly become a menace to the American economy, initiating many frivolous cases against productive American firms. This initiative will also document the recent disfunction that has pervaded the agency, including questionable ethics decisions, attempts to thwart congressional oversight, and widespread staff dissatisfaction.

TPA Executive Director Patrick Hedger offered the following comment:

“Today’s radical FTC has made clear its intention to further ideologically driven crusades over the interests and welfare of the American consumer. The FTC Mission Creep project will provide researchers, legislators, and the public with vital information and analysis to hold this rogue agency accountable.

“The FTC believes big business is inherently bad. It has advanced this notion with little respect for law, precedent, or norms, leading to embarrassing losses both in court and in-house administrative proceedings. The agency has even reportedly resorted to coordinating with European regulators to squash a merger that would likely be legal under U.S. law.

“The FTC is funded by taxpayers, and taxpayers deserve to know how bureaucrats are wasting their money. FTC Mission Creep was created because the country needs to know how the agency’s attempts to assume vast economic powers harm the economy and raise prices on the average American.”

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Taxpayers Protection Alliance Foundation (TPAF) is a non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to educating the public through the research, analysis, and dissemination of information on the government’s effects on the economy.