Three Martini Lunch: Inside Labor Sec. Chavez-DeRemer’s Scandal & Sudden Resignation
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🗓️ 21 April 2026
⏱️ 24 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the three martini lunch. |
| 0:04.9 | Grab a stool next to Greg Carumbus of Radio America and Jim Garrity of National Review. |
| 0:10.6 | Three martini's coming up. |
| 0:12.9 | So glad you're with us for the Tuesday edition of the three martini lunch. |
| 0:16.4 | If you live in Virginia, get out and vote. |
| 0:18.4 | But we start, Jim, with spring cleaning. This is the time of |
| 0:21.9 | year where people clean out their closets, maybe the garage. Sometimes it's their cabinets. And for |
| 0:26.2 | President Trump, it's the cabinet. First, it was the DHS secretary, Christy Noam, then it was |
| 0:32.4 | Attorney General Pam Bondi. Now it is Labor Secretary, Lori Chavez-Durimer. And you and I were never excited about Lori Chavez-Durreemar. |
| 0:40.3 | She was a Congresswoman from Oregon. |
| 0:42.3 | Pretty liberal Republican. |
| 0:44.3 | She had actually been one of the few Republicans in Congress to support the Pro Act, |
| 0:48.3 | which would have gutted freelance employment nationwide. |
| 0:51.3 | Thankfully, it did not pass. |
| 0:53.3 | But she was kind of seen as a thank you to the Teamsters for not making an endorsement at all. |
| 0:58.7 | In other words, not endorsing Kamala Harris in the 2024 campaign. |
| 1:02.4 | She really didn't make any headlines other than scandal. |
| 1:05.2 | She's been under investigation by the Inspector General's office for a number of things, |
| 1:08.7 | including day drinking on the job, |
| 1:11.3 | having her staff scheduled trips to visit family and friends with just a little bit of work squeezed |
| 1:17.1 | in there, so the taxpayer has to pay for all of it. |
| 1:19.5 | There's accusations that she was having an affair with the head of security. |
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