The political shift in Washington DC is rippling through to states and may bring additional challenges to officials trying to navigate the changes. Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes joins Bloomberg Intelligence analysts Justin Teresi and Holly Froum to discuss a wide range of litigation and policy issues on which her office is leading the states. On the antitrust front, we delve into recent cases against RealPage and landlords, like Camden Property Trust, around alleged use of artificial-intelligence algorithms to fix rent prices, and Mayes’ involvement in blocking the Kroger-Albertson’s merger. We also examine the role of Arizona and other states in litigation against manufacturers of forever chemicals, including 3M, DuPont and Chemours, seeking compensation for cleanup efforts across the state.

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Dr. Betsy Southerland, former EPA director of the Office of Science and Technology, joins Bloomberg Intelligence Litigation analyst Holly Froum to talk about the regulatory outlook for alleged cancer-linked PFAS, also known as “forever chemicals,” found in drinking water. Dr. Southerland discusses how and why the Trump EPA may roll back Biden-era rules passed in April that designated two of the most widely studied PFAS as hazardous under EPA Superfund laws and set maximum contaminant levels in drinking water. Dr. Southerland discusses how this could impact the safety of water for years to come and how Trump’s EPA may impact legal challenges to the rules by historic manufacturers like Chemours.

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What’s the outlook for policies coming out of Washington in 2025? What are markets potentially missing? Will Trump’s threatened tariffs be imposed? Will Congress be able to pass a bill that extends the 2017 Trump-era tax cuts? Will we have a debt ceiling crisis? How will regulators “de-regulate” in their sectors? On the latest edition of Votes and Verdicts, Veda Partners Cofounder and Director of Economic Policy Research Henrietta Treyz and BTIG Managing Director and Director of Policy Research Isaac Boltansky joined BI analysts Elliott Stein and Nathan Dean to discuss these issues and more.

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