Donald Trump is making good on his catchphrase, “You’re fired!”
He just axed two key people in a move Democrats will hate.
And it is going to throw D.C. into chaos.
Donald Trump is drawing serious outrage from the left after firing two people from the Federal Trade Commission due to their views conflicting with his agenda.
Democrats are up in arms that Trump has decided to make this move, as they are saying that the FTC is supposed to operate “independently.”
However, the firings make sense in the context of the fact that trade has been Trump’s top issue ever since he first jumped into politics years ago.
In fact, going back way before 2015 when he famously rode the golden escalator, Trump’s short-lived Reform Party presidential campaign in 2000 was filled with rhetoric about trade.
But it’s causing a massive stir in D.C. and Democrats are in a tizzy over it.
According to Democracy Docket, a left-wing outlet, “President Donald Trump fired two Democratic commissioners at the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on Tuesday in a direct challenge to a 90-year-old Supreme Court ruling that protects independent agencies.”
“Trump firing Commissioners Alvaro Bedoya and Rebecca Kelly Slaughter marks an escalation in his administration’s assault on independent agencies that were designed by Congress to operate without direct control from the White House.”
Every agency cannot possibly be an “independent agency.” For some agencies, like the Department of Justice, it makes sense for them to have a degree of independence.
But if every agency is labelled as “independent,” there’s no way to conduct oversight and keeping them from going rogue.
The article continues, “Trump dismissing Bedoya and Slaughter mirrors the conflict at the heart of Humphrey’s Executor v. U.S. Then, former President Franklin Roosevelt attempted to fire a member of the FTC in 1933 over political differences. However, the law that created the FTC only allowed a president to remove a commissioner for “inefficiency, neglect of duty, or malfeasance in office.”
“Trump administration officials at the Department of Justice have made similar arguments against limits to the president’s removal powers in the numerous lawsuits challenging Trump’s dismissals of other independent federal board members and commissioners.”
The Supreme Court will likely have to adjudicate these laws, but it is simply madness to have the entire agency be off-limits to any kind of oversight.
The same claims about “independence” are also made of the Federal Reserve, which has caused a lot of problems over the years in its own right.