U.S. President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday tapped Gail Slater, an antitrust veteran and economic adviser for JD Vance, to lead the Department of Justice's antitrust division and take charge of a full docket of blockbuster monopoly cases against companies including Google ,

Donald Trump has nominated Gail Slater to become the Assistant Attorney General for the Antitrust Division at the Department of Justice, according to a tweet Wednesday from the president-elect on Truth Social.

President-elect Trump on Wednesday announced that he will nominate Gail Slater as head of the Justice Department's antitrust division. Why it matters: Slater will inherit a number of big cases, including one that seeks to break up Google.