Axios: Dem lawmakers push Trump on FTC firings

Democrats wrote to President Trump on Thursday urging that he abandon the effort to get rid of the two Democratic members of the FTC, Alvaro Bedoya and Rebecca Slaughter.

Why it matters: The congressional support comes as the two fired commissioners kick off their legal fight to reclaim their jobs.

• Bedoya and Slaughter filed suit against the Trump administration in D.C. District Court Thursday, calling their firings illegal per a 1935 Supreme Court case, Humphrey's Executor.

What they're saying: 17 Democrats, led by Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Rep. Jan Schakowsky, wrote to Trump that firing the two Dems "appears to be yet another decision that you have made to help Elon Musk and other billionaire supporters - and leaves middle class families stuck with the cost."

• "These purported firings threaten the FTC's existence as an independent agency and pave the way for you to usr the FTC as a tool for partisan retribution or favor," the lawmakers write in the letter seen first by Axios.

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