Booker Says He Doesn’t 'Disagree' With Warren’s Big Tech Breakup Proposal

Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., said he doesn’t necessarily “disagree” with a proposal from Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., to break up big tech companies like Google, Facebook and Amazon (see 1904170046). During the first Democratic primary debate Wednesday, Booker said companies like Amazon “that pay nothing in taxes” should be singled out and policies changed. On antitrust, Booker said he would appoint judges who enforce and would enable a DOJ and an FTC that will “go through the processes necessary to check” corporate concentration: “We have too much of a problem with corporate power growing.” Corporate consolidation hurts small business and limits innovation, Warren said: The antitrust laws are in place but “missing is courage, courage in Washington to take on the giants.” Warren said returning the government to the people means "calling out the names of the monopolists and saying I have the courage to go after them.”