Key Senate Democrat Starts Probe on Trump’s EEOC, NLRB Firings

President Donald Trump’s purging of key members of two independent panels governing labor and workplace anti-bais laws prompted a probe from the ranking member of the Senate’s labor and health panel.

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), the Democratic leader of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, in letters Friday told leaders of the National Labor Relations Board and the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission that he’s “seeking answers about these deeply concerning firings” and to hand over “copies of all communication between the President’s Transition Team or Admission staff” and agency employees since November.

Sanders’s requests come amid continued ...