Following on the heels of the January 27, 2025 dismissal of National Labor Relations Board Member Gwynne Wilcox and NLRB General Counsel

President Donald Trump is scheduled to sign his first immigration bill Wednesday. He had campaigned on the issue of better securing the southern border. Meanwhile, his Health and Services secretary nominee,

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

President Trump continued to make waves just over a week into his presidency with his decision earlier this week to fire the chair of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), Gwynne Wilcox. This unprecedented decision came alongside Trump’s firing of NLRB General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo.

Both commissioners, who worked for the EEOC, said they are exploring options to challenge their dismissals, calling their removal before the end of their current terms unprecedented.

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

The White House fired Democrats Charlotte Burrows and Jocelyn Samuels from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), they each said.

A White House official defended the purge, calling the three women who lost their jobs "far-left appointees with radical records of upending longstanding labor law."

President Donald Trump removed Democratic U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity (EEOC) commissioners Charlotte A. Burrows and Jocelyn Samuels,

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

There are legal constraints in place that are designed to prevent many of Donald Trump's recent firings. So why is he making the moves anyway?

Some of President Trump’s moves since taking office have been expected, and others haven’t. Experts spoke to Hotel Dive about how the changes could impact hospitality labor.