{"id":51184,"date":"2022-08-08T10:49:42","date_gmt":"2022-08-08T17:49:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=51184"},"modified":"2022-08-08T17:50:06","modified_gmt":"2022-08-09T00:50:06","slug":"republican-commissioner-to-step-down-at-ftc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=51184","title":{"rendered":"Republican commissioner to step down at FTC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of two Republicans on the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), Noah Phillips,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nxslink.thehill.com\/click\/28661164.5113\/aHR0cHM6Ly90aGVoaWxsLmNvbS9wb2xpY3kvdGVjaG5vbG9neS8zNTkyNjU2LXJlcHVibGljYW4tZnRjLWNvbW1pc3Npb25lci1waGlsbGlwcy10by1yZXNpZ24vP2VtYWlsPWIwYmVmYjJkYWZjZTNhODdlN2YxMzZiYjA2NTRkZjA1M2Y4NDUzYWMmZW1haWxhPTFhMjc1N2UzNTgwMDFiYTI2MzE4YjAyYjg2ZjQxMzExJmVtYWlsYj1jMWI1ODkxZWM4MmRlMDlkYmNmOTczYWQ0OTU0NjAzMmVjZTc5NTBmYjNhN2U3Y2E4NmRkOWNmY2NhYmU2OWI4\/6230d8c8b246d104952dff9aB45531ae1\/email\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/nxslink.thehill.com\/click\/28661164.5113\/aHR0cHM6Ly90aGVoaWxsLmNvbS9wb2xpY3kvdGVjaG5vbG9neS8zNTkyNjU2LXJlcHVibGljYW4tZnRjLWNvbW1pc3Npb25lci1waGlsbGlwcy10by1yZXNpZ24vP2VtYWlsPWIwYmVmYjJkYWZjZTNhODdlN2YxMzZiYjA2NTRkZjA1M2Y4NDUzYWMmZW1haWxhPTFhMjc1N2UzNTgwMDFiYTI2MzE4YjAyYjg2ZjQxMzExJmVtYWlsYj1jMWI1ODkxZWM4MmRlMDlkYmNmOTczYWQ0OTU0NjAzMmVjZTc5NTBmYjNhN2U3Y2E4NmRkOWNmY2NhYmU2OWI4\/6230d8c8b246d104952dff9aB45531ae1\/email&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1660082948744000&amp;usg=AOvVaw3M6aIc9nGOltKUp6CMXrqq\">told FTC staff Monday<\/a>\u00a0he will be leaving the agency.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Phillips, who was appointed by former President Trump, sent President\u00a0Biden\u00a0a letter Monday morning notifying him of his intent to resign, according to a copy of the email sent to FTC staff.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cServing the American people by working with my extraordinary Commission colleagues and the incredible career staff at the agency to protect American consumers has been the honor of my lifetime. I have learned so much from all of you over the last four years, and am inspired by the commitment you bring to the incredible work of the FTC,\u201d he wrote in the email.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The email did not lay out a specific timeline for Phillips\u2019s resignation.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Phillips\u2019s departure will not likely impact FTC Chairwoman\u00a0Lina Khan\u2019s\u00a0goals, since she will be keeping her Democratic majority.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of two Republicans on the&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51184"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51185,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51184\/revisions\/51185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}