Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer (R-OR) will try to convince the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions to approve her nomination for Labor Secretary.
Chavez-DeRemer, believe it or not, is probably President Donald Trump’s most controversial pick because of her union views.
I agree with Ed Morrissey at Hot Air: Chavez-DeRemar is not a good pick. When the huge teachers union leader supports any of your nominees, but especially labor, that’s a problem:
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) is already a no. I bet Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) will gush over her.
Chavez-DeRemer promised Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA) she would protect everyone’s private and confidential information:
She didn’t immediately answer the question, but after being asked several times, said, “I would protect the private information on this issue. I have been — not been privy to those conversations with the president,” she said, referring to DOGE’s access to certain government databases.”I have seen that, and if confirmed, I commit to you that I will always protect the Department of Labor and those issues,” she said.
Chavez-DeRemer did not answer Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) when asked if Elon Musk should have access to the Labor Department. From NBC News:
In response to questions from Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., Chavez-DeRemer declined to directly answer questions about whether Trump adviser and tech mogul Elon Musk should have access to information about labor violation investigations at the Department of Labor, including investigations into his own companies.”I know that for most listening to this, it seems as though, when we’re trying to answer these questions, but I have not been in these conversations … I’m not confirmed,” Chavez-DeRemer told Murphy. “I have not been read in on any of this, and if confirmed, I commit to taking a deeper look and working with your office and any other office on this issue.”Murphy pressed the nominee again, asking her, “This one feels pretty simple, right?”Murphy continued that Musk “owns companies that have existing investigations” and that the tech mogul “has a direct interest in getting information about the seriousness of those investigations” and “in getting information about investigations against his competitors.”Chavez-DeRemer dodges on whether Musk should have access to OSHA and labor violation investigations, continued”It seems like a pretty simple commitment to make to say, ‘I am not going to give any private company exclusive access to information about open investigations against them or their competitors,'” Murphy added.Chavez-DeRemer dodged again, telling Murphy that she would defer to Trump on this issue.”The president has the executive power to exercise it as he sees fit,” she said. “I am not the president of the United States. I work for the president of the United States, if confirmed, and I will serve at the pleasure of the president on this issue.”
I hope not…
Chavez-DeRemer told Paul that she no longer supports the part of the PRO Act that would outlaw a state’s Right to Work law.
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