Posted on 02/20/2017 2:38:45 PM PST by Tours
President Donald Trump’s new nominee to run the Department of Labor is an accomplished lawyer and a rising star in the GOP’s Hispanic networks and also in the party’s pro-diversity establishment wing. The nominee, Alexander Acosta, is a Harvard graduate and a former senior justice department official under George W. Bush. From 2005, he served as a federal attorney in Florida, where he successfully prosecuted a series of high-profile cases and is now a university dean.
If confirmed by the Senate to run the Department of Labor, Acosta will play an important role in overseeing and regulating the annual inflow of roughly 1 million contract workers. Those contract workers fill white-collar and blue-collar jobs throughout the economy and they also lower wages for American graduates and unskilled workers.
However, he’s likely to clash with Attorney General Jeff Sessions, a populist who is expected to push for reduced use of foreign workers. Throughout the 2016 campaign, Trump called for reforms of the contract-worker programs, including the H-1B program, and declared his policy would be to “Buy American, Hire American.”.....
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Changing out one Cheap Labor Express Republican for another is not really what I had in mind.
Didn’t a see that he also let the Clintons’ billionaire pedophile pal off the hook?
Ted Cruz IIRC is a big supporter of this guy for the position.
And the fact he didn’t prosecute Epstein of Orgy Island fame. He left it to a Florida State court.
Hmmm....interstate transportaion of a minor for prostitution. Definitely a Federal case.
Who does Trump have vetting these guys? More Priebus hires, I presume.
“Ted Cruz IIRC is a big supporter of this guy for the position.”
Cuban connection?
This is not going the way I assumed. Priebus is a problem.
“More Priebus hires, I presume.”
Hard to say, but his selection does seem to go very much against Trump’s America First philosophy.
To be fair, it may not be Priebus.
Trump WHAT ARE YOU DOING?
Stop this. You had a very winning “America First” campaign.
Very very big. Keep to that, and implement it.
DO NOT return to the old “conservative “sell out America” approach.
That is why you are president. Among the very most important issues anywhere.
You need to be this way. America first.
Big time.
I just heard Stone on with Jones. He said Priebus. Doesn’t even know that Trump has met the guy, as Trump was focused on the NSA. I really don’t get why Trump is letting Priebus do this. But Stone noted that Trump was moving ahead apace with his own agenda in terms of action—e.g., with the repeal of Glass-Steagall. (I haven’t seen, has Trump moved closer to that?)
Did he ever hire illegals? That derailed Puzder the last Labor guy.
I for one have no doubt that if he goes against what Trump wants, Trump will replace him faster than he can say, “You’re Fired”.
Exactly. He either tows the line or gets fired. Not worried about it.
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