Rich Trumka Jr., commissioner of the Consumer Products Security Commission until he was fired by President Trump on Thursday, said in a letter that his dismissal is illegal and plans to combat the action.
“See you in court, Mr. President,” Trumka written In a publication on the social networks of May 9 that included a statement using the official letterhead of the CPSC in which he describes his dismissal.
The CPSC is an independent agency that regulates the safety of consumer products, from toys to appliances. It is the group that often manages the withdrawals of elements such as Kitchen ranges that can turn on fires And steam cleaners that They have burned users.
In his statement, Trumka said it was not a reason for his dismissal, but that his dismissal occurred after he and two other commissioners voted against allowing the members or the efficiency department of the Government of the members or Elon Musk, or Dooge in the agency. Trumka, who was appointed for a 7 -year mandate by President Biden in 2021, said he withdrew against Doge because “if these people are allowed to govern our agency, they will gut it and the result goes back the clock in product safety.”
He added: “CPSC’s salvation work is too important to take this to bed.”
In addition to Trumka, two other commissioners in the Consumer Product Product Commission of five people were fired on Thursday, accordance To Washington Post. The three were Democrats, the publication said.
The White House did not respond to a request for comments, however, at a press conference on Friday, the White House spokeswoman, Karoline Leavitt, said the CPSC falls under the executive branch, giving the President the right to employees.
Consumer Reports issued a statement condemning CPSC’s layoffs and said the commissioners must be reinstated immediately.
“This is an apple attack and without law against the independence of the product security control agency of our country,” said William Wallace, director of defense of the security of consumption reports, in an email. “Anyone who worries about keeping his family safe must be this move and demand that he be invested.”
Senator Amy Klobuchar, Democrat of Minnesota and three other Democratic senators, Maria Cantwell of Washington; Ed Markey from Massachusetts; and Richard Blumenthal de Connecticut, also opposed the shooting in a May 9 letter For Mr. Trump, qualifying the “illegal” layoffs.
“The Consumer Product Safety Commission ensures that toys are safe for our children and the products used by Americans every day have no hidden dangers,” said Klobuchar in a statement. “He performs thousands of research and crucial retreat problems. This movement is dangerous and illegal.”
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Doge has tried to reduce federal workers in the name of reducing fraud, waste and abuse. But many of their shots have had to be reversed, either Bird feed experts With the United States Department of Agriculture, or after a court ruled that the dismissals were illegal.
Doge savings have a large extent the leg erased Due to costs related to these issues, as well as resolves productivity, according to a recent analysis of the Association for Public Service, a non -partisan profit organization that focuses on the Federal Work Force.
CPSC layoffs occur after the Trump administration dismissed other officials of independent agencies, including the Vice President of the National Transport Security Board this week and a Member of the National Labor Relations Board in January.
“If my illegal shot is allowed to stand up, the way will clear so that the administration and its dogs will paralyze the functions that come out of this agency to benefit its rich donors,” Trumka added.
