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The(DRP) reference to costs follows an estimate that deferred resignation programs in 2025 cost between about $11 billion and $15 billion in lost productivity. Under an initial government-wide offer and then later individual offers from agencies, some employees were allowed to stay in paid status for six months or longer.

Please article below for clarification:

https://www.fedweek.com/fedweek/opm-acts-to-put-administrative-leave-for-deferred-resignation-into-regulation/

Thursday, that ended. Except
for one agency the Court
specifically chose to protect.

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HERE IS WHAT WAS ACTUALLY
OVERTURNED

In a 6-3 ruling, the Supreme
Court overruled Humphrey's
Executor v. United States, the
1935 decision that let Congress
shield FTC commissioners from
being fired without cause.

Chief Justice John Roberts
wrote for the majority: "If
anything more is left of
Humphrey's, the Court overrules
it." He called the old
precedent "a result in search
of a rationale."

This started when Trump fired
FTC commissioner Rebecca
Slaughter, a former aide to
Senate Minority Leader Chuck
Schumer, in 2025, citing his
Article II authority. Slaughter
sued, citing the FTC Act, which
said commissioners could only
be removed for "inefficiency,
neglect of duty, or malfeasance
in office."

The Court just said that law
no longer matters.

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HERE IS WHAT JUSTICE
SOTOMAYOR SAID IN HER
DISSENT

She read it aloud from the
bench, a rare move signaling
serious disagreement: "The
Court gives the President a
power unknown even to the
English Crown against which
the Founders revolted."

She also wrote: "Today, this
Court undoes centuries of
political practice and
concludes that all three
branches of Government have
been acting in open defiance
of the Constitution all this
time. Its conclusion is wrong."

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HERE IS THE TWIST THAT
HAPPENED THE SAME DAY

In a companion case, Trump v.
Cook, decided 5-4, the same
Court refused to let Trump
remove Federal Reserve
Governor Lisa Cook.

The Fed got carved out.
Everyone else didn't.

We told you weeks ago Alan
Greenspan spent his final
months publicly defending Fed
independence from political
pressure. This is the test
that fight just passed, at
least for now, while every
other independent agency lost
the same protection on the exact same day.

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ANGLE 1 — WHO ACTUALLY GETS
CONTROLLED BY THIS RULING

This decision named the FTC
specifically, but legal
analysts note the same logic
extends to the SEC and CFTC,
the agencies that regulate
your stock market and crypto
trading, even though neither
was named in the holding.

Roberts pointed out the FTC
alone "enforces and administers
some 80 statutes that cover
nearly every facet of the economy."

That means the people overseeing
nuclear energy, product safety,
labor relations, and financial
markets can now be replaced at
will, for any reason, the moment
a president disagrees with a decision.

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ANGLE 2 — WHAT BOTH SIDES
ARE ACTUALLY SAYING

Trump posted on Truth Social:
"90 years of precedent has
been COMPLETELY AND
UNEQUIVOCALLY OVERRULED,
greatly increasing Presidential
Power at a time when it is
most needed!" Asked by reporters
if he'd fire more people now,
he said: "I don't think so...
it gives a president the right
to do what the president should
have the right to do."

Senate Judiciary Committee
ranking member Dick Durbin
said: "The Supreme Court just
overturned well-established
precedent to greenlight Donald
Trump's threats to independent
federal agencies. Now, this
President can fire whomever he
perceives as his enemy at
these agencies without so much
as citing cause."

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ANGLE 3 — WHY THE FED
CARVE-OUT MATTERS MOST OF
ALL RIGHT NOW

Legal analysts note this Fed
exception is explicitly
described as uncertain in
scope, it's not clear whether
it protects the entire Federal
Reserve or just its monetary
policy functions specifically.

That ambiguity means this
exact question, whether the
president can control the
institution that sets interest
rates, your mortgage costs,
and inflation policy, is now
sitting one step away from
being tested again. The 5-4
margin, the closest of any
ruling issued Thursday, tells
you how contested that single
exception actually was.

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We've spent weeks showing you
how the war in Iran is driving
inflation, and how that
inflation depends entirely on
the Fed staying independent of
political pressure. Thursday,
the Court protected that
independence by the narrowest
possible margin, while removing
it from nearly everywhere else
in government.

Nobody paid us to write this.

SOURCES:

 1. NPR Original Report —
   Full Roberts quote, Slaughter
   background confirmed published
   today:
   npr.org/2026/06/29/nx-s1-5816232/supreme-court-ftc-independent-agencies-humphreys-executor

 2. CBS News — Full 6-3 vote
   breakdown, Sotomayor dissent
   read aloud confirmed published
   today:
   cbsnews.com/news/supreme-court-trump-ftc-slaughter-humphreys-executor

 3. CNBC — Full Trump quotes,
   Durbin statement confirmed
   published today:
   cnbc.com/2026/06/29/supreme-court-trump-slaughter-ftc.html

 4. Consumer Finance Monitor —
   Full Trump v. Cook Fed
   carve-out analysis confirmed
   published today:
   consumerfinancemonitor.com/2026/06/29/supreme-court-overrules-humphreys-executor-vastly-expands-presidential-removal-authority-but-preserves-federal-reserve-independence

 5. NBC Washington — Full
   Sauer "headless fourth branch"
   quote confirmed published
   today:
   nbcwashington.com/news/national-international/supreme-court-slaughter-trump-independent-agency-board-members-decision/4104286

 6. TFTC — Full SEC, CFTC
   implications, Fed ambiguity
   analysis confirmed published
   today:
   tftc.io/trump-v-slaughter-scotus-humphreys-executor-sec-cftc-bitcoin

 7. Wikipedia — Full case
   history, Humphrey's Executor
   timeline confirmed updated
   today:
   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humphrey's_Executor_v._United_States