The U.S. Federal Trade Commission's lone Republican commissioner, Christine Wilson, will step down from her role at the end of March, she said in a letter to President Joe Biden on Thursday, in which she criticized FTC Chair Lina Khan.
In addition, Holly Vedova, head of the agency's bureau of competition, said she would retire after decades at the agency but did not give a date for her departure, according to a source familiar with her decision.
Khan had named Vedova to run the competition bureau in September 2021 as part of her effort to reinvigorate antitrust enforcement. Wilson has accused the FTC under the Biden administration of overstepping by being too aggressive in stopping mergers and banning most noncompete clauses. And she has been a sometimes scathing critic of Khan for her style of leadership.
"Under her leadership, knowledgeable career staff have been scorned and sidelined," she said in her letter to Biden.
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