Trump railroad regulator was fired by White House after Amtrak Acela event

A member of the U.S. rail regulatory board said he discovered that he had been fired by the Trump administration after returning home from an Amtrak event to unveil new high-speed Acela trains.

“I was just as surprised as anyone else,” the former Surface Transportation Board member, Robert Primus, said Thursday in an interview with CNBC’s Eamon Javers.

Primus, a Democrat who was nominated to the board in 2020 during President Donald Trump’s first term, also reaffirmed that he planned to fight his ouster.

“I tell people, I’m from Jersey and Jersey folks know how to fight,” he said.

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