For investors, this shift raises serious concerns about market fairness and corporate accountability. Regulatory agencies play a key role in investigating corporate misconduct and ensuring market stability. If these agencies lose their independence, it could result in weaker enforcement, corporate favoritism, and market volatility.

The order is the latest example of Trump’s embrace of a broad and controversial theory of executive power. The White House is confident the Supreme Court will bless his approach.

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 Chairman Andrew Ferguson's actions are undermining the FTC's independence and threatening the bipartisan structure of the agency Congress created.

Trump ordered independent agencies like the Federal Trade Commission, Securities and Exchange Commission and Federal Communications Commission to submit proposed regulations to the White House to ensure they are in line with the president’s priorities.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order (the “Order”) mandating that independent agencies, including the SEC, the

The Trump administration has taken another step to centralize the executive branch with a new order that “reins in independent agencies.” | The White House's latest executive order would give the president greater control over federal agencies typically shielded by cross-term leadership appointments and dismissal protections.

WASHINGTON—President Trump signed an executive order on Tuesday that seeks to give his political appointees far-reaching control over federal agencies that for decades have operated independently of White House influence.

President Donald Trump recently signed a new executive order that confirms the administration’s legal position that so-called independent