Trump’s fight to fire two federal board members is a leading example of the president’s assertion that the executive branch has authority over the executive branch

President Donald Trump fired two federal board members in the bag for Democrats .

Gwynne Wilcox and Cathy Harris were sent packing from the National Labor Relations Board ( NLRB ) Both were nominated by former President Joe Biden , who thought of himself as “the most pro-union president in American history”.

The CFPB was created in the wake of the 2008 recession, but watchdogs have long accused it of rampant abuse.

A federal judge last week blocked the administration’s plan to issue 1,500 layoffs.

The president fired the director of the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau , the big-government monster lovechild of Elizabeth Warren and Obama .