{"id":1427,"date":"2025-02-08T12:52:58","date_gmt":"2025-02-08T12:52:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/?p=1427"},"modified":"2025-02-08T12:52:58","modified_gmt":"2025-02-08T12:52:58","slug":"fec-chairwoman-rejects-trumps-attempt-to-remove-her-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/?p=1427","title":{"rendered":"FEC Chairwoman Rejects Trump\u2019s Attempt To Remove Her"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Federal Election Commission Chairwoman Ellen Weintraub is refusing to leave her post despite receiving a letter from President Donald Trump claiming her removal. Weintraub posted the letter on social media, asserting the dismissal is illegal, stating there is a proper procedure for replacing FEC commissioners. She emphasized that she will continue serving the American people.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-1\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"blob:https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/59fa9249-b365-42f5-8ae0-f27ac2ec1f2e\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" data-origwidth=\"300\" data-origheight=\"250\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>This follows Trump\u2019s earlier controversial firings of inspectors general. Meanwhile, Reps. Judy Chu and Gwen Moore confronted House Speaker Mike Johnson over Elon Musk\u2019s Department of Government Efficiency\u2019s access to a Treasury Department payment system, accusing Musk\u2019s team of mishandling private taxpayer information.<\/p>\n<p>Their actions came amid growing Democratic opposition to Musk\u2019s influence on the federal government, which is driving extensive reform efforts aimed at cutting government spending.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Federal Election Commission Chairwoman Ellen Weintraub is refusing to leave her post despite receiving a letter from President Donald Trump claiming her removal. Weintraub posted the letter on social media, asserting the dismissal is&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1427"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1429,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1427\/revisions\/1429"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}