The three Democrats removed from the commission said they were targeted for voting to stop imports of poorly made lithium-ion batteries and objecting to staffing cuts.

The Consumer Product Safety Commission is a small but powerful federal agency that for five decades has kept dangerous toys, cribs, and electronics out of American homes.

A federal judge has issued a two-week pause on the Trump administration’s layoffs across the federal government, ruling that the effort to fire of thousands of workers and eliminate some agencies entirely cannot proceed for now.

President Donald Trump's administration must temporarily halt its sweeping government overhaul because Congress did not authorize it to carry out large-scale staffing cuts and the restructuring of agencies,