Liberals are trying to trick Republicans into supporting the “American Innovation and Choice Online Act” legislation sponsored by Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN). That legislation would massively expand the Federal Trade Commission’s power over the economy and businesses.

Republicans should understand that the FTC is run by radical ideologues hellbent on using government power to push a woke social agenda. Instead of voting to give the runaway agency even more power, Republicans should hold oversight hearings to determine how far the FTC has strayed from its statutory authority. Consider how FTC Chairwoman Lina Khan gave a keynote address last week at an event co-hosted by the “Economic Security Project” and the “Law and the Political Economy Project,” far-left organizations that claim the “free market is dead” and work to “understand the relationship between market supremacy and racial, gender, and economic injustice.” Khan lamented that the government does not do enough to shape “economic outcomes” and attacked the free market as a “product of metaphysical forces.” She proposed a “paradigm shift” that would allow antitrust to direct specific economic outcomes via government and legal “intervention.”