Donald Trump’s efforts to strip federal agencies and commissions of their independence took an alarming step Monday, when the president fired one of the five commissioners who sit on the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

President Donald Trump fired Christopher Hanson, a Democratic member of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the latest in a series of removals of independent regulators that has led to legal controversy.

President Donald Trump has fired a Democratic commissioner for the federal agency that oversees nuclear safety as he continues to assert more control over independent regulatory agencies.