President Donald Trump just fired three individuals on the Consumer Product Safety Commission. 

The move was reported by the New York Times. 

Something worth noting here is that the commission only consists of five individuals, and Trump just got rid of three of them, all of whom are reportedly Democrats.

For those unfamiliar with the commission, Just the News reports that it is "a five-person panel that issues standards, recalls, and bans on products it deems a risk to consumers."

Trump cleans house

The three individuals whom Trump fired are Richard Trumka Jr., Mary Boyle, and Alexander Hoehn-Saric. The firing took place on Thursday night.

The Hill reported:

The three Democratic commissioners on the five-person panel are Richard Trumka Jr., Mary Boyle and Alexander Hoehn-Saric, who were all appointed by former President Biden and confirmed by the Senate. Trumka is the son of late AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka.

It turns out that the firings came after the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) took a trip to the CPSC office in Maryland.

The Trump administration has not released a statement on the matter, but the individuals who have been fired have, and these statements give us some insight as to why Trump may have made this move.

As you might have guessed, the three individuals were not exactly in-line with the Trump administration's agenda.

"I was a roadblock"

Trumka released a statement claiming that he was fired because he was a "roadblock" to the Trump administration.

He said:

[My firing] immediately follows me doing two things that this Administration is against: (1) advancing solutions to protect the American people from harm, and (2) stopping the illegal firing of scores of public servants who do lifesaving work.

Just the day before the firing, Trumpka says that he "made it clear that I was a roadblock to the administration’s plan to fire civil servants at the CPSC."

Trumpka and the others have also indicated that they plan to challenge their termination in court and that they expect to win because, in Trumka's words, "Unfortunately for the President, he did not have the authority to fire me."

At the time of this writing, we have yet to hear the Trump administration's take on this situation. Clearly, though, it believes that it is in the right and that it will prevail against these individuals in court. As we have seen, however, it all might depend on who the judge is.