Trump dismisses the Democrats to the Federal Commerce Commission

President Trump fired the two Democratic members of the Federal Commerce Commission on Tuesday, a rejection of the traditional independence of the corporate regulator that will clear the way for the administration's agenda and could obtain a legal challenge.

The White House told the Democrats, Rebecca Kelly Slaughter and Álvaro Bedoya, that the president was finishing his roles. The Congress created the FTC to enforce consumer protection and antitrust laws. He usually has five members, with the president's party with three seats and the opposite part two.

“Today, the president dismissed me illegally as my position as Federal Commissioner of Commerce, violating the clear language of a statute and a clear precedent of the Supreme Court,” Slaughter said in a statement. “Why? Because I have a voice. And I'm afraid of what I will tell the American people.”

Trump's maneuver is his last attempt to affirm the power of the presidency about independent regulators in agencies within the United States government. Most of these regulators are appointed presidential ones that have traditionally had great freedom to determine the direction of their agencies.

But the Trump administration has ignored traditional protections for those appointed presidential.

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