A former federal employee sued the Trump administration claiming he was fired from the National Transportation Safety Board because of his race, alleging that 75 percent of Black officials at independent agencies have been fired under Trump at a disproportionate rate. The lawsuit cites a pattern of replacing Black appointees with white officials and ties this to Trump's stated opposition to DEI programs. The core event (Brown's firing) is documented, but the 75 percent statistic and comparative rate claims come only from the lawsuit itself and haven't been independently verified by news outlets or researchers examining personnel data. What remains unclear: whether researchers or civil rights organizations have systematically audited federal agency staffing changes to verify whether the claimed disproportion actually exists.