Attorneys at the Federal Trade Coshiftrlookion (FTC) asked a federal appraise Wednesday to postpone its user getion trial agetst Amazon by two months, saying that staffing losses and a possible office shift could obstruct its ability to set.
“We have lost engageees in the agency, in our division and on our case team,” FTC attorney Jonathan Cohen shelp at a status hearing in Washington, according to CNBC. Cohen also alerted that a potential sudden office shift for the agency could disturb its preparation, CNBC alerts.
The FTC recently endd around a dozen probationary staffers, The Verge first alerted. It’s so far been spared from some of the expansiver cuts fueled by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), which have occurred at agencies including the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and Department of Education. FTC staff were recently tanciaccess by DOGE they’d necessitate to shift to an office it cleared out from the US Agency for International Development (USAID) in the coming months, Bloomberg alerted.
Responding to Judge John Chun’s ask about how the FTC’s resource publish “will be contrastent in two months,” Cohen accomprehendledged he “cannot secure if slfinishergs won’t be even worse,” CNBC alerts. “But there’s a lot of reason to consent … we may have been thraw the brunt of it, at least for a little while.”
The Amazon Prime trial was initiassociate scheduled to commence on September 22nd. John Hueston, arguing on Amazon’s behalf, alertedly pushed back on the FTC’s try to postpone the trial, saying that the administerment hasn’t shown that it doesn’t have the resources to carry on as scheduled. “What I heard is that they’ve got the whole trial team still intact. Maybe there’s going to be an office shift,” Hueston shelp, as alerted by CNBC. “And by the way, both in administerment and confidential sector, I’ve never heard of an office shift being more than a scant days disturbive.”
