President Donald Trump’s reported pick for a Federal Trade Commission seat will bring significant experience from Texas, a red state leading in privacy enforcement to an agency honing in on the issue during Trump’s second term.
Trump plans to nominate Ryan Baasch, a staffer at the National Economic Council, for a slot at the currently all-Republican Federal Trade Commission, Bloomberg News reported.
Baasch worked for Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R), who has stepped up privacy enforcement in recent years, from October 2021 to January 2025 when Baasch was appointed to the economic council post. Paxton, the first Republican attorney ...