Commissioners Alvaro Bedoya and Rebecca Kelly Slaughter both released statements saying they’d been dismissed illegally.
More than two dozen Democratic U.S. senators called on President Donald Trump on Wednesday to rescind his termination of the ...
The firings drew criticism from Democratic senators concerned that the move was designed to remove opposition within the ...
President Donald Trump's firing of two commissioners at the Federal Trade Commission puts the U.S. consumer protection in ...
President Trump’s dismissal of two Democratic members of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is raising new questions about the future of the independent agency and what it could mean for the ...
FTC commissioners serve seven-year terms. Bedoya, who has served since May 2022, had four years left in his term. Slaughter was to have served until September 2029. The Federal Trade Commission ...
"I'm a commissioner at the Federal Trade Commission. The president just illegally fired me," Bedoya wrote on social media, arguing Trump wants the FTC to "be a lapdog for his golfing buddies." ...
President Trump fired two Democratic appointees from the independent agency tasked with policing corporate America. One of ...
President Donald Trump ousted the Democratic members of the Federal Trade Commission ... plans to permanently fire them. The FTC expulsions leave the commission with just two Republicans, Ferguson ...
The firing of Democrats, bound to face legal review, poses uncharted challenges to the agency’s role as a business and tech watchdog.
Commissioners Alvaro Bedoya and Rebecca Kelly Slaughter said they had been "illegally" fired from the consumer protection agency.
The two remaining Democratic commissioners of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) have been fired, they announced on social media Tuesday. Alvaro Bedoya and Rebecca Kelly Slaughter were both ...