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Lori Chavez-DeRemer Would Be A Disaster As Labor Secretary
Republicans should take the side of their own voters instead of listening to decadent union goons like Sean O’Brien.
Donald Trump’s cabinet picks have been mostly stellar. They have signaled Trump’s administration will enforce U.S. immigration law, pursue a firm but less adventurous foreign policy, and most importantly, empower the people at the expense of the federal leviathan, as exemplified by the new Department of Government Efficiency. All of this makes Donald Trump’s Friday announcement of soon-to-be-former Oregon Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer, R-Ore., as his prospective Secretary of Labor incomprehensible and unacceptable. Donald Trump should force her to withdraw immediately. If not, the Senate should reject her appointment.
The main reason for Chavez-DeRemer’s nomination to head the Labor Department is that Sean O’Brien, the leader of the Teamsters Union, likes her. O’Brien attempted to ingratiate himself with Trump by speaking at the Republican National Convention this summer. But O’Brien’s presence there doesn’t change the fact that his union is thuggish and corrupt, with widespread kickbacks, stolen worker dues, and prevalent intimidation of workers opposed to leadership. O’Brien’s affinity for Chavez-DeRemer comes from her compliance with union bosses’ priorities as a congresswoman, not her advocacy for workers themselves.
Chavez-DeRemer was one of only three House GOPers to co-sponsor the PRO Act, which would have overturned all right-to-work laws in the United States. You read that correctly. Trump’s pick to lead the Department of Labor aided and abetted an almost unanimously Democratic effort to nullify the right-to-work laws that have attracted capital and workers to conservative states like Texas, Tennessee, North Carolina, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, and Arizona. She supported trampling federalism along with liberty and prosperity. ... |
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