The Trump administration dismissed two Democrats on the US Federal Trade Commission on Tuesday, in the latest example of the White House asserting control over US agencies.
The commissioners, Alvaro Bedoya and Rebecca Kelly Slaughter, were told of their dismissal in an email from the White House personnel office. The five-member FTC enforces antitrust and consumer protection laws, including those related to the privacy of financial information and children online.
“The president just illegally fired me,” Bedoya said in a social media p