Washington (AP). President Donald Trump dismissed the Democratic Commissioner for the Federal Agency, which oversees nuclear security because he continues to control that he is more controlled by independent regulatory agencies.
Christopher Hanson, a former chairman of the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission, said in a statement on Monday that a short terminated his position as a NRC commissioner, “contrary to the laws and long -term precedent relating to the removal of independent agencies.”
Hanson shooting comes when Trump seeks to deprive power from an independent security agency, which regulated the US nuclear industry for five decades. May Trump has signed executive orders aimed at producing four -legged domestic nuclear energy over the next 25 years, and goals experts say the US is very likely to reach the US. To speed up the development of nuclear energy, orders give the US Secretary of Energy to approve several advanced reactor projects and projects.
The White House spokeswoman Anna Kelly told reporters that “all organizations are more effective when leaders are in the same direction” and that the Republican president reserves the right to remove the staff of his executive service.
The short dismissed two of the three democratic commissioners in the Employment Opportunities Commission, the independent federal agencies responsible for the execution of the federal laws prohibiting discrimination in the workplace. Two members of the National Labor Relations Board were dismissed in a similar step. Willie Phillips, Democratic Member and former Chairman of the Independent Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, April. Retreated, saying to reporters that the White House had asked him to do so.
Trump also signed an executive order at the White House directly control independent federal regulatory authorities such as the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Federal Commission and the Federal Communications Commission.
New Jersey spokesman Frank Pallone, Chief Democrat of the Chamber’s Energy and Commerce Commerce, called Hanson’s shooting illegal and another Trump attempt to harm independent agencies and consolidate power in the White House.
“Congress clearly created NRC as an independent agency isolated from any president’s whims, knowing that it was the only way to ensure the health, safety and well -being of the American people,” Pallone said in a statement.
Senate Democrats also said the short had crossed its authority. Sens Sheldon Whitehouse, Patty Murray and Martin Heinrich said in a joint statement that “Trump’s injustice” threatens the Commission’s capabilities to ensure that nuclear power plants and nuclear materials were safe and without political interference.
2020 Trump was appointed to the commission. 2020 He was appointed chairman of President Joe Biden in 2021. January And went to this role until the president of the second term. Trump elected David Wright, a member of the Republican Commission, as chairman. Hanson continued to serve NRC as a commissioner. His term had to be completed in 2029.
The Wright term ends on June 30th. The White House did not say whether it would be re -appointed.
Edwin Lyman, the director of nuclear energy safety of the Union of Parent Scientists, called Hanson a dedicated civil servant and a strong supporter of NRC Public Health and Safety Mission. Hanson shooting is “the latest outrageous step to harm independence and integrity,” which protects the US homeland from nuclear power plants, Lyman said.
NRC confirmed that Hanson’s service ended on Friday, presenting a group to two Democrats and two Republicans. The Commission has been in the past less than five members of the commission will continue to do so, according to the report.
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McDermott reported from Providence, Ri
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