It is what’s known as an “independent agency” or “independent regulatory agency”—a part of the executive branch whose members are appointed by the president and confirmed by the Senate ...

The effort would reflect a fundamental restructuring of how formerly independent agencies implement and enforce federal laws.

Staff at the Federal Trade Commission have been instructed to no longer refer to the agency as “independent” in complaints, ...

The White House has fired two Democratic board members of the National Credit Union Administration in push to sway ...

The ruling Friday is a victory for Trump’s effort to exert control over regulatory agencies that ... The laws governing many independent agencies typically permit the president to fire board ...

That’s why breaking with past practice and transforming independent financial regulatory agencies from bipartisan commissions into a one-party echo chamber is such a bad idea. Everyone who cares ...

as President Donald Trump expanded efforts to influence independent regulatory agencies. Todd Harper and Tanya Otsuka, who both served on the NCUA's board, said in separate statements that they ...