Federal Trade Commission Chair Andrew Ferguson has refused to commit to resisting President Donald Trump if he ordered the agency to drop its antitrust suit against Meta, saying he would “obey lawful orders” and calling the scenario “a hypothetical.

Meta and the US Federal Trade Commission are set to face off in federal court this month, in the first big test of whether the new Donald Trump-appointed antitrust regulator will continue to crack down on Big Tech.

The Meta chief, who was at the White House on Wednesday, has discussed the case with the president and his aides. A trial is set to start in less than two weeks.

The Federal Trade Commission late Tuesday stayed a lawsuit accusing pharmacy middlemen of gaming the system to inflate the price of insulin — a drug millions of Americans need to survive. When it did,

The Federal Trade Commission’s lawsuit against three large pharmacy-benefit managers over insulin prices is on hold after President Trump fired two of the agency’s commissioners.

Chair Andrew Ferguson on Wednesday defended President Trump’s decision to fire the agency’s Democratic commissioners.  FTC commissioners Rebecca Kelly