The commission is a five-person panel that is appointed by the president and confirmed by the Senate to five-year terms.

President Trump on Monday fired two of the three Democratic commissioners who enforce civil rights in the workplace, extending his purge of diversity, equity and inclusion in the federal

President Donald Trump fired two Democratic commissioners on the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission late on Monday night, likely violating legal statute.

President Donald Trump has fired two of the three Democratic commissioners of the federal agency that enforces civil rights laws in the workplace, an unprecedented move aimed at implementing his crackdown on certain diversity and gender rights policies.

After dismissing 17 independent inspectors general earlier, Trump fired a half dozen National Labor Relations Board and Equal Employment Opportunity Commission officials in a bid make them ideologically compatible.

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