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

A White House official defended the purge, calling the three women who lost their jobs "far-left appointees with radical records of upending longstanding labor law."

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

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

After dismissing 17 independent inspectors general earlier, Trump has fired a half dozen NLRB and EEOC officials in a bid to bring the agencies into ideological alignment.

Unprecedented firings leave agency unable to act Ex-commissioners say they are considering legal action Firings come amid backlash to workplace diversity initiatives Jan 28 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump has fired at least two Democratic members of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission,

The White House fired Democrats Charlotte Burrows and Jocelyn Samuels from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), they each said.