President Donald Trump has taken the unprecedented step of firing two of the three Democratic commissioners of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency responsible for enforcing civil rights law in the workplace. The dismissed commissioners, Charlotte Burrows and Jocelyn Samuels, confirmed their firings on Tuesday, expressing their intention to challenge the decision, which they described as undermining the agency's independence.
In a similar move, National Labor Relations Board member Gynne A. Wilcox and General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo were also fired, with Wilcox being the first Black woman to serve on the Board since its establishment in 1935.
