{"id":24239,"date":"2025-03-18T20:26:07","date_gmt":"2025-03-18T21:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=24239"},"modified":"2025-03-18T22:24:11","modified_gmt":"2025-03-18T22:24:11","slug":"trump-fires-democrats-on-federal-trade-commission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=24239","title":{"rendered":"Trump Fires Democrats on Federal Trade Commission"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"css-s99gbd StoryBodyCompanionColumn\" data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">President Trump fired the two Democratic members of the Federal Trade Commission on Tuesday, a rejection of the corporate regulator\u2019s traditional independence that will clear the way for the administration\u2019s agenda and could draw a legal challenge.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The White House told the Democrats, Rebecca Kelly Slaughter and Alvaro Bedoya, that the president was terminating their roles. Congress created the F.T.C. to enforce consumer protection and antitrust laws. It typically has five members, with the president\u2019s party holding three seats and the opposing party two.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cToday the president illegally fired me from my position as a federal trade commissioner, violating the plain language of a statute and clear Supreme Court precedent,\u201d Ms. Slaughter said in a statement. \u201cWhy? Because I have a voice. And he is afraid of what I\u2019ll tell the American people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Trump\u2019s maneuver is his latest attempt to assert the power of the presidency over independent regulators at agencies inside the U.S. government. Most of those regulators are presidential appointees who have traditionally had wide latitude to determine the direction of their agencies.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"Dropzone-1\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"css-s99gbd StoryBodyCompanionColumn\" data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But the Trump administration has disregarded the traditional protections for those presidential appointees.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-798hid etfikam0\"><em class=\"css-2fg4z9 e1gzwzxm0\">This is a developing story. Check back for updates.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"RelatedLinksBlock-3\">\n<div data-testid=\"lazy-loader\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Trump fired the two Democratic members of the Federal Trade Commission on Tuesday, a rejection of the corporate regulator\u2019s traditional independence that will clear the way for the administration\u2019s agenda and could draw a legal challenge.The White House told the Democrats, Rebecca Kelly Slaughter and Alvaro Bedoya, that the president was terminating their roles. Congress created the F.T.C. to enforce consumer protection and antitrust laws. It typically has five members, with the president\u2019s party holding three seats and the opposing party two.\u201cToday the president illegally fired me from my position as a federal trade commissioner, violating the plain language of a statute and clear Supreme Court precedent,\u201d Ms. Slaughter said in a statement. \u201cWhy? Because I have a voice. And he is afraid of what I\u2019ll tell the American people.\u201dMr. Trump\u2019s maneuver is his latest attempt to assert the power of the presidency over independent regulators at agencies inside the U.S. government. Most of those regulators are presidential appointees who have traditionally had wide latitude to determine the direction of their agencies.But the Trump administration has disregarded the traditional protections for those presidential appointees.This is a developing story. Check back for updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24241,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24239"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24242,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24239\/revisions\/24242"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}