Posted on 11/23/2024 6:59:21 PM PST by thegagline
President-elect Trump’s nomination for labor secretary is a “toxic” anti-conservative RINO with cozy ties to unions, outraged critics told The Post Saturday.
During her single term on the Hill, Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer (R-Ore.) has backed a laundry list of boiler-plate liberal policies at odds with longstanding Republican orthodoxies, including strengthening unions’ efforts to organize the private sector, amnesty for illegal immigrants, and championing expanding government employee unions.
“The signaling effect alone from this nomination would be that the Trump administration is not serious about deregulation or economic growth,” Ken Girardin, labor expert at the conservative Empire Center for Public Policy, told The Post. One of the biggest red flags for critics is the fact that Chavez-DeRemer was one of only three House Republicans who co-sponsored the radical, union-backed PRO Act.
The bill, which failed to pass out of the House in 2023, would have banned right-to-work laws in over two dozen states, which allow employees to opt of paying union dues; devastated the gig economy by restricting independent contractor classifications; and forced employers to hand over their workers’ personal information.
“In this woman’s America, every worker would have to have a boss and pay the union for the privilege of working,” said Grover Norquist, founder and president of Americans for Tax Reform.
“This is an outrage, This is not mildly bad. This is a huge thing that she voted for.” *** Lefty teacher’s union boss Randi Weingarten also cheered the pick, saying on X she hoped “it means the Trump admin will actually respect collective bargaining and workers’ voices from Teamsters to teachers.”
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Did they get to him?
Is this a watered down Trump? I hope not.
It may just be a token.
Trust in Trump and stop all this about every selection.
These things cannot pass Trump and they cannot pass a republican Congress.
Blah blah blah.
Trump has chosen.
Do all his picks need to be approved by the Senate?
Here’s Trump’s pick for Surgeon General
Dr Janette Nesheiwat, in her own words [02/23/2021]:
“We have many vaccines in existence that treat a variety of non-life threatening diseases but to have a COVID vaccine, i.e. a Pfizer or Moderna mRNA that will actually save you from dying is a gift from God.”
Pro-union and pro-amnesty are polar opposites.
Want higher pay, then you can’t flood the market with illegals.
The nomination for labor secretary is a toxic anti-conservative RINO with cozy ties to unions.
Gee I guess we shouldn’t have voted for him then! /s
Let the man have his picks. Much more damage is being done by undermining him from every direction.
Great pick shows he remembers that many unions didn’t endorse Harris and is giving them a seat at the table
We do know that the Teamster rank-and-file likes Trump.
Did Trump create operation warp speed? Did this lead to the vaccine? Has Trump been a proponent of the vaccine since then? Having a surgeon general that agrees with him kinda makes sense
There's video in 2022 on Fox of Nesheiwat criticizing the Covid vaccine for children.
I wonder who recommended this nut to Trump?
He must get Matt Gaetzto drop out because he was too conservative.
But guess we’re locked-in to this Weingart sweetheart because she’s ...
Wait. What?
This is Trump’s big weakness. He doesn’t pick good people. (Remember he actually hired Omarosa.). Many of his problems in his first term were a result of making back personnel picks, and he seems intent on making many of the same mistakes this time.
LOL Listen to you.
“Ah what the hell...”
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