Delivered CPSC commissioner says to President Trump: “See you in court”

Rich Trumka Jr., a commissioner of the consumer product commission until he was released by President Trump on Thursday, said in a letter that his dismissal was illegal and that he plan to combat the action.

“We see ourselves in court, Mr. President,” Trumka wrote in a social media post dated May 9, which contained an explanation with the official letterhead of the CPSC in which he described his release.

The CPSC is an independent agency that regulates the security of consumer goods from toys to devices. It is the group that often recalls of objects like processed Kitchen areas that can set fire and steam cleaner that Have burned users.

In his explanation, Trumka said that he had no reason for his release, but his dismissal came after he and two other commissioners against the permission of the members of the Department of Government Efficiency or Doge from Elon Musk had voted to work on the agency. Trumka, who was appointed a 7-year term by President Biden in 2021, said that he had pushed back against Doge because “if these people can rule our agency, they will move out and the result will turn back for product safety.”

He added: “The living work of CPSC is far too important to get in line.”

In addition to Trumka, two other commissioners for the five-person consumer product security commission were released on Thursday. All three were Democrats, it says in the publication.

However, the White House did not immediately answer a request for a comment. In a press conference on Friday, the spokeswoman for the White House, Karoline Leavitt, said that the CPSC falls under the executive and gives the president the right to dismiss the employees there.

Consumer reports submitted an explanation in which the CPSC fires were convicted and said that the commissioners should be stopped immediately.

“This is a horrific and lawless attack on the independence of the product security guard of our country,” said William Wallace, director of security lawyer for consumer reports, in an e -mail. “Anyone who takes care of protecting their family should oppose this step and ask for them to be reversed.”

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Doges savings were mostly exhausted After a recently carried out analysis of the partnership for the public service and a non -profit organization, which focuses on the federal assistant.

The CPSC fires come after the Trump government has rejected other officials from independent agencies, including the Deputy of the National Transportation Safety Board this week and A Member of the National Labor Relations Board in January.

“If my illegal shooting should be, it will clarify the way for the administration and its lapdogs to be the life -saving functions of this agency to do their wealthy donors,” added Trumka.