Fired FTC commissioner warns of the ‘corrupting influence of billionaires’

Bedoya and his fellow Democratic Commissioner Rebecca Kelly Slaughter were both fired by Trump on Tuesday evening in what they call an illegal removal from an independent agency. Trump’s move appears to violate the law and a longstanding Supreme Court precedent preventing the president from firing commissioners without cause. In an interview with CNBC on Wednesday, Slaughter warned that their firings are a warning for other government entities that are supposed to be independent. “If I can be fired, I don’t know why Jerome Powell can’t be fired,” she said, referring to the chair of the Federal Reserve.