The dismissals target two independent agencies that oversee swaths of U.S. workers, employers and labor unions.

His unlawful purge of the National Labor Relations Board on Monday serves all three goals at once. With these firings, Trump has paralyzed the board, asserted control over its agenda, and engineered a legal showdown over the scope of his constitutional authority.

Some agency employees who President Donald Trump terminated from their leadership roles Monday night are now “considering legal options.”

President Trump fired two Democratic EEOC commissioners and an NLRB board member, hobbling two independent agencies that are tasked with enforcing worker protections.

The Democratic commissioners hadn't completed their terms before the White House notified them that they were being removed.

President Donald Trump has removed a Democratic member of the U.S. National Labor Relations Board from office, an unprecedented move that will escalate an ongoing legal battle over the scope of the president's powers to control federal agencies.