Since taking his oath of office earlier this month, President Donald Trump has unleashed a veritable rampage of executive actions.

That trend continued this week when the president fired two Democratic commissioners at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC).

Ex-commissioners say that their firing "violates the law"

According to Fox News, Charlotte Burrows and Jocelyn Samuels revealed on Tuesday that they had received dismissal notices the night before.

The pair said that their removal "violates the law, and represents a fundamental misunderstanding of the nature of the EEOC as an independent agency – one that is not controlled by a single Cabinet secretary but operates as a multi-member body whose varying views are baked into the Commission’s design."

What's more, Samuels alleged that her and Burrows' firing "undermines the stability and continuity of the EEOC's critical work to advance equal opportunity and fair treatment."

Samuels also complained that the White House "critiqued my views on DEIA initiatives and sex discrimination, further misconstruing the basic principles of equal employment opportunity."

Former official slams White House for "demonization of transgender individuals"

She went further, asserting that diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives "protect all people on the basis of race, sex, gender and religious belief, and other characteristics."

"This Administration's demonization of transgender individuals is both cruel and inconsistent with the law," Samuels went on to add.

Yet as Fox News noted, critics have alleged that the EEOC has made moves which themselves amount to discrimination.

As an example, the network pointed to the EEOC's "Enforcement Guidance on Harassment in the Workplace," which was released this past April.

The document indicated that "sex-based harassment" includes "intentional and repeated use of a name or pronoun inconsistent with the individual’s gender identity."

EEOC guidance threatened employers over transgender bathroom policies

The guidance then suggested that employers could be liable for harassment if they mandate that employees use bathrooms which correspond with their biological sex.

It's time to end the EEOC!!

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In response to Samuels' complaints, a White House official told Fox News that the two former EEOC commissioners "were far-left appointees."

The official went on to accuse them of "upending longstanding labor law" and added that the pair "have no place as senior appointees in the Trump Administration" which "was given a mandate by the American people."