They can be "independent", provided the President is able to fire them. That is the mechanism for accountability. NLRB directors only being fireable for cause

They can be "independent", provided the President is able to fire them. That is the mechanism for accountability. NLRB directors only being fireable for cause, rather than because the people's elected representative chooses to can them as a matter of state policy, is unconstitutional. https://www.npr.org/2020/06/29/884958645/supreme-court-rules-that-the-structure-of-key-independent-agency-is-unconstituti https://www.npr.org/2020/06/29/884958645/supreme-court-rules...