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Trump just fired the two Democratic members of the FTC

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Julie DiMauro

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Move marks POTUS’s latest attempt to control independent federal agencies under an expanded concept of executive power.

On Tuesday, President Trump fired Rebecca Kelly Slaughter and Alvaro Bedoya, the two Democratic Federal Trade Commission (FTC) commissioners. The oustings left just two Republican commissioners at the agency, which is tasked with enforcing antitrust and consumer-protection laws.

The move represents the President’s intensifying efforts to exert his administration’s control

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