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Folks, While we are fighting to get personal protective gear for frontline healthcare workers, ensure families can afford rent and keep food on the table, and keep small businesses from permanently closing their doors – we cannot let corporations and large companies run away with relief funding and carry on with business as usual while our attention is elsewhere. I’ve called for a broad moratorium on most mergers during the COVID-19 crisis and am urging my colleagues to include this plan in any future coronavirus relief package Congress takes up. I am also calling on the Treasury Department and the Federal Reserve to stop large companies that have received coronavirus relief funds from taking part in any harmful mergers. It's simple: We can’t let corporations and other large companies consolidate power while the national attention is focused elsewhere. We have to ensure workers have a functioning, competitive economy to return to once this crisis is over.
This isn’t a “just in case” plan to tackle theoretical future mergers: After the pandemic hit, Uber entered negotiations to buy the food delivery app Grubhub.
We cannot allow corporations like Uber – that already has its own Uber Eats delivery service – to monopolize the market, especially when families are relying on food delivery more than ever and local restaurants depend on delivery orders to stay in business. This is an economic crisis – one that is hitting Main Street hard. We can’t let Wall Street take advantage of a global pandemic. Add your name to join me in calling for a halt on mergers during the COVID-19 pandemic → Thanks for standing up for working families, folks. -- David
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