Rebecca Kelly Slaughter returned to the Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday after a court ruling that reversed President Donald Trump ‘s effort to oust her.
“Back at my desk, back online, and have already moved to reinstitute the Click to Cancel Rule,” Slaughter wrote on her official government account on X. “Hope a majority of the Commission will join me – all Americans deserve to be protected from abusive subscription traps.”
Slaughter’s profile also was restored on the FTC website.
On Tuesday, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals lifted a stay on a lower court decision that ordered Slaughter be reinstated. The Trump administration has been appealing that district court decision, which found that Trump’s removal of Slaughter without cause violated the congressionally intended ind