The efforts of President Donald Trump to redo the US government continued today with the dismissal of the two Democratic members of the Federal Trade Commission. This agency historically had five members: three from the same party as the president and two of the opposing party. The New York Times that the president put an end to the roles of the commissioners of the FTC Rebecca Kelly Slaughter and Alvaro Bedoya.
Slaughter and Bedoya said today that dismissing them were illegal. The conditions of the commissioners cannot be completed until early for good causesuch as "ineffectiveness, negligence of duty or embezzlement in office." Also, no more than three commissioners Can come from the same political party, which means that the pair cannot be replaced by additional Republicans either. It seems likely that Trump will face a legal challenge concerning the attempt to eliminate these positions.
"The law protects the independence of the commission because the law serves the American people, not the power of companies," Slaughter said in a statement. "The reason why the FTC can be so effective for the American people is because of its independence and because its commissioners serve through political parties and ideologies. The abolition of opposition votes may not change what the majority of Trump can do, but that changes if they will have a responsibility when they do."
Bedoya too About the action on X, supporting the Slaughter declaration that the deletion of their posts is illegal. "Tomorrow, I will testify in front of the Colorado Joint House and Senate to the judicial committees, and I will have more to say, then," He wrote.
Trump signed a In February, trying to exercise more control over several agencies which were trained to remain intentionally outside the competence of the White House. The order targeted agencies such as the FTC, the Federal Commission Commission and the Securities and Exchange Commission. The FTC recently All articles on his corporate blog of the Administration of President Biden, leaving a difference of four years without a council of compliance published.
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