Multiple Senate Democrats on the Commerce, Science and Transportation on Tuesday pressed President Trump’s Federal Trade ...

U.S. President Donald Trump's nominee to the Federal Trade Commission said on Tuesday he believes the White House should ...

The order is the latest example of Trump’s embrace of a broad and controversial theory of executive power. The White House is ...

President Donald Trump is moving to give the White House direct control of independent federal regulators such as the ...

The Trump administration has taken another step to centralize the executive branch with a new order that “reins in ...

Trump’s new EO would effectively bring the FTC, SEC, FDIC under control of the White House’s Office of Management and Budget The White House has already said that Trump has the authority to ...

U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal, a Democrat from Connecticut, on Friday said he is concerned that Federal Trade Commission ...

President Trump on Tuesday signed an executive order aiming to expand the White House’s authority over various independent ...

President Trump’s efforts to expand control over independent agencies tees up a new test of presidential power that is ...

The order will require all independent federal agencies and executive branches to submit draft regulations so they can be reviewed by the White ... like the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), Federal ...

In one episode that made headlines, Trump met with then-FTC Chair Joseph Simons in the White House and pushed him to take action on the censorship allegations, as POLITICO reported in August 2020.