Trump's Labor Secretary Nominee Faces the Senate

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🗓️ 19 February 2025

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Donald Trump picked Lori Chavez-DeRemer as a thank you to the Teamsters for staying neutral in the 2024 election. But given her past support for bills that would override right-to-work laws and bolster public unions, will Republicans in the Senate go along with her confirmation? And as union membership falls to a historic low of 9.9%, is courting labor bosses a good GOP strategy? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:29.9	From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal. This is Potomac Watch.
0:44.7	President Trump's nominee for Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-Durreemar testifies during her Senate confirmation hearings as Republicans press are on her support for union-favored legislation
0:50.4	amid a debate inside the GOP about what it really means to become a party of workers.
0:56.5	Welcome, I'm Kyle Peterson with the Wall Street Journal.
1:00.1	We're joined today by my colleagues, editorial board member, Manet Uquay-Berua, and columnist Alicia Finley.
1:07.0	So far, President Trump's cabinet nominees have sailed through Senate confirmation hearings with barely token dissent from the GOP, even for strange ideological bedfellows.
1:17.8	RFK Jr., confirmed last week in a vote of 52 to 48, Tulsi Gabbard, who got through with the same tally.
1:26.1	But a Republican is going to confirm a Labor Secretary, who is a favorite of the teachers' unions and the teamsters.
1:32.2	That's the question in the Senate today, where former Congresswoman Lori Chavez-Duremer is testifying.
1:38.7	Her record in Congress includes sponsoring the Pro Act, which would override right-to-work laws in 26th states.
1:47.3	Here she is at the Senate hearing explaining her past support for that bill.
1:51.1	I know there has been a lot of conversation about my support of the Pro Act.
1:55.6	Like President Trump, I believe our labor laws need to be updated and modernized to reflect today's workforce and the business environment.
2:04.7	As a member of Congress, the Pro Act was the bill to have those conversations.
2:11.0	Conversations that matter deeply to the people of Oregon's 5th Congressional District.
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