As in its proposal last year, the DOJ says Google should be forced to sell its web browser, Google Chrome, and potentially Android, as punishment for being a monopolist, as Judge Mehta found last year,

The Department of Justice is reaffirming a proposal that a court force Google to sell Chrome to restore competition in online search.

The government is asking a court to force Google to sell its Chrome web browser after the company was found to have an illegal monopoly in search.

In a court filing on Friday, the government signaled a continuation of tough regulatory pressure on the search giant.

Google is urging officials at President Donald Trump’s Justice Department to back away from a push to break up the search engine company, citing national security concerns, according to people familiar with the discussions.

Among the DOJ's suggestions was that Google be forced to sell off Chrome and be banned from re-entering the browser market for five years. Unsurprisingly, Google didn't much care for this plan, and they're now trying their luck with the Trump administration.

Google parent Alphabet (GOOGL) is pleading with the Donald Trump Government to reconsider a decision of breaking up the company, which was

Google has been pushing back on its ruling as a search monopoly, making its case directly to the Trump administration, arguing that a forced sale of Chrome-one of the Justice Department's most disruptive proposed remedies-poses national security risks,

In its final proposed remedy filing in the Google antitrust case, the Department of Justice reiterated that Google should stop paying partners for search placement—and divest its dominant Chrome browser.