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Slaughter says her removal from US FTC helps billionaires at public's expense

( March 26, 2025, 14:30 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: US Federal Trade Commissioner Rebecca Kelly Slaughter spoke before a House subcommittee on commerce over how President Donald Trump’s attempt to fire her and Commissioner Alvaro Bedoya undermines the agency’s consumer protection efforts. “[T]he current administration’s arbitrary, unjustified, and blatantly illegal firings of civil servants across the government and silencing of bipartisan voices in fact undermine its stated goal of efficiency, as do its other efforts to inflict trauma on civil servants. […] [I]t’s clear that the winners of these policies that undermine our work are the people profiting off unfair or deceptive practices, in this case billionaire Jeff Bezos, a VIP guest at this year’s Inauguration. The rest of those billionaire guests have their hands out, too,” Slaughter said.See attached file. ...

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