Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), who serves on the committee that oversees the FTC, argued in a statement that "President Trump's dismissal of Commissioners Slaughter and Bedoya is not only illegal but also hurts consumers...” Klobuchar and a majority of Democratic Senators sent a letter to the White House, arguing the President’s action “contradicts long standing Supreme Court precedent, undermines Congress’s constitutional authority to create bipartisan, independent commissions, and upends more than 110 years of work at the FTC to protect consumers from deceptive practices and monopoly power.” In a White House press release, Lynne Parker, Principal Deputy Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy, noted that the AI Action Plan “is the first step in securing and advancing…