As the Nov. 5 election nears and with former President Donald Trump on the cusp of becoming the Republican nominee, President Joe Biden‘s administration is amping up its regulatory actions — especially efforts to target so-called Big Tech.

When advocates of expanding U.S. antitrust laws to rein in Big Tech failed to pass reforms through Congress when Democrats held full control of the government from 2021 to 2023, the Biden administration took up the fight in its regulatory federal agencies. Meanwhile, Biden early in his administration appointed law professor Lina Khan to lead the Federal Trade Commission and an ideological ally, Jonathan Kanter, to head the Department of Justice Antitrust Division.