Trump says he intends to nominate Oregon Congresswoman Lori Chavez-DeRemer as Secretary of Labor

[Dennis Donovan]

Yashar Ali 🐘
‪@yasharali.bsky.social‬
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President-elect Trump says he intends to nominate Oregon Congresswoman Lori Chavez-DeRemer as Secretary of Labor.

November 22, 2024 at 7:29 PM

https://bsky.app/profile/yasharali.bsky.social/post/3lblaggwpjk2e

[Deep State Witch]

1. Probably Loathed by Unions

She's probably as scabby as Trump and Elon are.

[Igel]

3. More like a lot of (R) don't like her.

Whatever unions think of her, a lot of (R) think she's too supportive of unions.

[Cha]

7. Hope Sean O'Brien likes her. NOT.

[Wiz Imp]

11. He does. For what it's worth, she does have a pro-union voting record in Congress (just 1 term though)

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-selects-rep-lori-chavez-deremer-labor-secretary/

Sean O'Brien, president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, praised the selection in a social media post, writing that "North America's strongest union is ready to work with you every step of the way to expand good union jobs and rebuild our nation's middle class."

[Cha]

17. Thanks... she seems to be the exception

to the others who are Against what they would head.

[Wiz Imp]

10. Actually one of the lone Republican supporters of various pro-union bills

https://19thnews.org/2024/11/trump-picks-lori-chavez-deremer-a-pro-union-republican-to-lead-the-department-of-labor/

Probably the least MAGA appointee yet. Seems more like a traditional Republican.

However, she doesn't have any much experience or qualifications that I can see. Served just one term in Congress. No other government experience but did run (and lose) several other elections including her Congressional re-election bid this year.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

13. She didn't get the AFL-CIO endorsement when she ran, but she got quite a few individual unions.

[Easterncedar]

2. He keeps this up we will get the house

[mikewv]

4. Agree.. 215-217 most likely at the moment. nm

nm

[Wiz Imp]

12. Dems are highly unlikely to win any of the special elections for the seats being vacated.

All seem to be overwhelmingly Republican districts. So by late Spring, it will likely be back to 220-215.

[appmanga]

5. BTW...Adam Gray is within 220 votes of his Republican challenger...

...and his gap has been closing all week. Just a small amount of votes remain to be counted though. The Rapists may just wind up with a 2-vote majority before any of them leave for Cabinet posts, so you could be right.

[Easterncedar]

9. I can dream

[oregonjen]

8. She lost her race to Democrat Janelle Bynum, so no longer will be in the House

[UTUSN]

18. AWww, was hoping for a narrower

[Polybius]

21. She just lost her House race

She was out in early January anyway.

[ColinC]

6. This is what happens when the person deciding things cannot do math

[mathematic]

14. There definitely could have been worse picks here.

This almost feels like a concession to his labor support. I don't know much about her personally but just from her policy positions, I wouldn't be surprised if she got a lot of Dem support. I mean someone that isn't outright hostile to labor as Sec of Labor in a republican administration? It's going to be a long 4 years if dems can't take that as a win.

[0rganism]

15. Her main qualification seems to be "meh, could be worse"

All the super-shitty early nominations have done their work. Now the just-kinda-shitty nominations seem like a fucking relief. We Americans are a Stupid people -- far from the only ones, but we are known as renowned pioneers of new territories in Stupidland. And con-men love to take advantage of Stupids. And whaddaya know, TSF just happens to be the greatest con-man in history.

[bigtree]

16. she has a 10% rating on AFL-CIO's legislative scorecard

...

[Polybius]

22. Got a link?

Very surprising, considering that the Teamsters endorsed her.

[RANDYWILDMAN]

19. Happy valley Barbie

a do nothing mayor
a do nothing congressman
a Trump sycophant
a true ass kisser

just like Trump she loses and comes out better in the end. sickening

[Polybius]

20. She actually is not as awful on labor as most Republicans

Wouldn't be my pick, but there's a lot worse.