WASHINGTON – Competitiveness Coalition Chairman Ronna McDaniel authored a new piece for The Center Square, warning conservative lawmakers not to emulate the failures of “Bidenomics,” such as the American Innovation and Choice Online Act (AICOA), a pet project of Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) and other anti-business activists such as former Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Chair Lina Khan and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA).
“Backers of AICOA subscribe to the ‘big is bad’ mentality. In their worldview, companies of a certain size require government intervention to level the playing field. In practice, the results are disastrous,” writes McDaniel, a former four-term chair of the Republican National Committee (RNC). “In 2024, this philosophy blocked a proposed grocery merger between Kroger and Albertsons, two chains that were set to join forces in order to compete with larger players like Walmart…Fast forward to today, and such workers are receiving pink slips. Albertsons has been forced to shutter more stores and jobs nationwide on top of the roughly 20 it closed in 2025.”
McDaniel continues: “They also prevented a merger between JetBlue and Spirit Airlines. Combined, the two affordable airlines would have commanded approximately 8% of the U.S. domestic market share, making it the fifth-largest U.S. carrier…since then, Spirit filed for bankruptcy and has since been forced to cut hundreds of jobs, furlough pilots, reduce flight routes and cease operations in dozens of cities. The airline’s future is so bleak the Trump Administration is putting together a rescue package.”
“In 2024, American voters rejected the failures of Bidenomics and opted for a new direction. Let’s not repeat the far left’s mistakes. Let’s…(reject) AICOA and allow innovation to lead us to a new and brighter future,” concludes McDaniel.
Read the full piece in The Center Square here.
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