President Donald Trump has dismissed the three Democrats on the consumer product Safety Commission, a week after they voted to defy an executive order that the power of the White House claimed about independent regulatory authorities.
Commissioners Richard Trumka Jr. And Mary Boyle say they were told by the White House that the president had fired them. The third Democrat, Alexander Hoehn-Saric, said he was not informed of his resignation, but that he was locked up in Bethesda, Maryland established in Bethesda.
All three were mentioned on Friday as 'former supervisory directors' on the website of the agency.
The three Democrats voted last to promote a rule about the safety of the lithium ion battery. Trumka called the omnipresent devices “ticking time bombs” because they can explode if they are incorrectly charged.
But when placing the rule for public comments, the Commission bypassed the Witte Huis and Regulatory Affairs office. In an executive order in February, Trump dedicated agencies such as the CPSC to send all proposed rules for an assessment of the White House.
The dismissal commissioners also said that their resignation followed on Thursday on a visit from the Ministry of Efficiency of Elon Musk on Thursday, after which they refused to go along with hiring two doge employees – Justin Fox and Nate Cavanaugh – at the agency.
“There were doge people at the office this week and immediately afterwards our colleagues received their e-mails,” said Hohn-Saric. He said that Dog “split it up for sharing and threw it in the basement.”
Trumka said he would appeal against his resignation.
“The president would like to put an end to the long history of this nation of independent agencies, so he has chosen to ignore the law and pretend that independence does not exist. I will see him in court,” Trumka said in a statement on CPSC letterhead.
White House Pers Secretary Karoline Leavitt said on Friday that the president had acted within his powers.
“Who is the head of the executive power? The president of the United States. He has the right to fire people within the executive,” Leavitt said reporters during a briefing.
All three Democrats were appointed by former President Joe Biden and confirmed by the Senate in 2021. Trumka, the son of former trade union leader Richard Trumka, was appointed a term of office of seven years. Hoehn-Saric term ends in 2027 and Boyle's in October 2025.
Trumka's advocacy for a greater regulation of gas stoves in 2023 led to the recoil of Republicans, who called it an example of over -range.
Like many similar boards, the CPSC is set up to be two -fold, with members who serve and protected against shooting except “for duty destruction or crime in function, but for no other cause.”
Republican Peter Feldman, the acting chairman of the committee, told Friday in an e -mail CPSC employees that Trump had the legal authority to dismiss commissioners and that the agency “will continue to perform its duties with zeal and integrity.”
With the help of Ari Natter.
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