Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer to Step Down
Chavez-DeRemer is leaving during a misconduct probe involving alleged travel fraud.
Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer will step down from her position, according to Assistant to the President & White House Director of Communications Steven Cheung.
“Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer will be leaving the Administration to take a position in the private sector,” Cheung wrote on X. “She has done a phenomenal job in her role by protecting American workers, enacting fair labor practices, and helping Americans gain additional skills to improve their lives.”
Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer will be leaving the Administration to take a position in the private sector. She has done a phenomenal job in her role by protecting American workers, enacting fair labor practices, and helping Americans gain additional skills to improve their…
— Steven Cheung (@StevenCheung47) April 20, 2026
Deputy Secretary of Labor Keith E. Sonderling will take over as acting secretary.
Chavez-DeRemer is leaving during a misconduct probe involving alleged travel fraud.
Four employees have already left. From The New York Post on March 4:
Melissa Robey, who served as director of advance in the secretary’s office, was fired on Tuesday at the prompting of the White House, sources said.
On March 4, Robey was put on administrative leave following allegations that she misused taxpayer dollars for official travel — one day after Chavez-DeRemer’s two top aides resigned from their positions while facing similar allegations.
Investigators had gathered evidence of a “toxic” workplace created by chief of staff Jihun Han and his deputy Rebecca Wright, including verbal abuse of staffers and waste of departmental resources on personal trips, sources noted.
The senior aides were also accused of committing “travel fraud” by helping “make up” official trips to destinations where Chavez-DeRemer, 57, could spend personal time on the taxpayers’ dime.
People familiar with the probe added that Robey, who acknowledged that she had been interviewed by investigators on Monday, also had excessive travel-related expenditures.
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I win the office pool. Too much bad juju from this one. Notice that unlike Noem she is gone, gone, gone.
This lady was IMO the worst pick of the administration from day one.
She was a Vote sop to Teamsters and UAW for POTUS endorsement. Poor pick by the Unions to represent them (D-Ore)
Exactly right. Her dad was a union boss, and she acted like one.
That explains it.
I’ve always wondered why she was chosen.
And, yes, she was pretty awful.
Why do we have a labor department. What exactly do they do. How large are they. Do they have their own SWAT unit like the education department,
Yes I could answer my own questions with a little research but the fact I don’t know at least some of the answers is kind of my point
They generate incorrect statistics.
She appears to be a graduate of the Obama School of Posing.
You can tell them by the subtle tattoo under the chin, which is always visible.
Notice there isn’t as much fighting over these things as there would be under prior administrations?
We haven’t yet heard from the Hawaiian judge who will demand she be given back her job.
Chavez?
Nobody with that name should ever been granted a position.
What about Linda Chavez?
Do you feel the same way about people named Rubio, Cruz, Miyares, Moreno, etc? How about people with Italian names, Polish names, Indian names? Got a problem with them too? And what of Jacobson, Shapiro, Cohen, etc?
Can we get a Labour Secretary who isn’t a Marxist next time?
She’s not a Marxist. She’s just not very smart.