STATEMENT: CAP’s Neera Tanden Praises State AGs for Stepping Up To Block Dangerous Paramount-Warner Bros. Merger

Washington, D.C. — Today, 12 attorneys general from states across the nation filed a lawsuit to block the anticompetitive merger of Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery. The Trump administration recently approved the merger at the federal level amid reports that career antitrust officials who raised concerns were left out of the process. In response, Neera Tanden, president and CEO of the Center for American Progress, issued the following statement:

The Paramount-Warner Bros. merger is emblematic of the corrupt policies of the Trump administration. A close ally of President Donald Trump reportedly gets the Department of Justice to approve this deal over the objections of career officials in order to fuel a merger that will limit choices of Americans, probably raise their prices, and, by controlling CBS and CNN, damage democracy as well. The state attorneys general, led by California’s Rob Bonta, are waging an indispensable fight on behalf of the American people.

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