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Trump’s firing of the FTC’s two Democratic commissioners in March 2025 set off a fresh fight over whether he was trying to bend an independent regulator to his will. Separately, House Oversight Democrats reopened a different Trump-era probe over an alleged $10 million Egyptian cash bribe cover-up, adding to the broader argument that oversight is exactly what Trump wants to control.
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Trump’s firing of the FTC’s two Democratic commissioners in March 2025 set off a fresh fight over whether he was trying to bend an independent regulator to his will. Separately, House Oversight Democrats reopened a different Trump-era probe over an alleged $10 million Egyptian cash bribe cover-up, adding to the broader argument that oversight is exactly what Trump wants to control.
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Trump’s firing of the FTC’s two Democratic commissioners in March 2025 set off a fresh fight over whether he was trying to bend an independent regulator to his will. Separately, House Oversight Democrats reopened a different Trump-era probe over an alleged $10 million Egyptian cash bribe cover-up, adding to the broader argument that oversight is exactly what Trump wants to control.
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