Bipartisan Lawmakers Want Biden to Tell Europe to Stop ‘Unfairly' Targeting U.S. Tech Companies

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The White House has so far tried to thread a thin needle on the issue of competition reform at home and abroad.

to push European leaders to alter language in their proposed Digital Markets Act so that it does not unfairly target U.S. tech companies.

In a letter sent Wednesday and shared exclusively with CNBC, the group, led by Reps. Suzan DelBene, D-Wash., and Darin LaHood, R-Ill., wrote that they"are greatly concerned that EU's proposed approach to promoting competition among digital platforms unfairly targets American workers by deeming certain U.S. technology companies as 'gatekeepers' based on deliberately discriminatory and subjective thresholds.

The letter comes as lawmakers are debating competition reforms at home that would also seek to rein in the power of the Big Tech companies.have already passed the Senate Judiciary Committee this year with bipartisan support. The White House has so far tried to thread a thin needle on the issue of competition reform at home and abroad, recently releasing a

 

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