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.

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.

Google will have to break up its business, the Justice Department said in a filing, upholding the previous administration's proposal after a federal judge ruled last year that the company illegally abused a monopoly over the search industry.

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

The Department of Justice on Friday reaffirmed its demand that a federal court break up Google. The DOJ’s request came after Judge Amit P. Mehta of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia ruled last year that the Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOG)(NASDAQ:GOOGL) illegally operated a monopoly in online search through payments to web browsers and