President Trump fired a board member of a transportation regulator that is weighing a merger between Norfolk Southern and Union Pacific, part of the latest shakeup in the federal government.

The administration terminated Robert Primus, a member of the Surface Transportation Board (STB), on Wednesday. Primus, a Democrat, was nominated to serve on the five-member board in 2020 during Trump's first term and began serving the following year.

“This is deeply troubling and legally invalid. Ironically, this comes at a time when the Board is considering significant pressing matters of critical importance to both our national freight rail network and supply chain that would directly affect large swaths of our manufacturing, agricultural, industrial and energy sectors,” the ousted official said in

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