A representative from the White House confirmed to the Washington Examiner that Alvaro Bedoya and Rebecca Kelly Slaughter had been fired.
The president’s decision to reform the federal government is another one. Trump signed an executive order last month, giving him more authority to oversee separate companies. The government’s celebration has three people, and the minority party has two. The FTC typically has five.
On Tuesday, both Democrat FTC commission said they would consider the case before the court system and that they would protest their removal.
The Federal Trade Commission employs me as director. I recently received a legally fired leader. This is fraud in plain and simple terms, Bedoya said in a statement.
Additionally, Bedoya asserted that Trump “wants the FTC to be a sycophant for his sports friend.”
In her own statement, Slaughter wrote that” Nowadays the leader illegally fired me from my place as a national trade commissioner, violating the ordinary language of a statute and apparent Supreme Court precedent.” ” Why? since I can speak. And he fears what I’ll say to the British citizens.
Republican FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson said in a statement that he had” no doubts” about Trump’s constitutional authority to remove the two commissioners.
Democratic lawmakers demanded their restoration and swiftly condemned the firings.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA ) stated in a statement that” Donald Trump just illegally fired two independent directors at the FTC who fight large corporations that abuse customers and staff.
” Why? A return on their investment is what Trump’s businessman sponsors hope to see. He works for them, no you, she continued. The courts may restore the commission, he remarked.
