What Next | Why This Trump Nominee Has Union Support

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🗓️ 20 February 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Trump's pick for labor secretary, Lori Chavez-DeRemer, is an outlier: She has experience in federal government, where she was one of three House Republicans to support the “Protecting the Right to Organize Act” to expand employees’ rights to organize and collectively bargain and she was accompanied by the head of the Teamsters when she went to visit Mar A Lago after the election. What did her hearing tell us about how she would approach being labor secretary—while working in an administration that’s firing huge chunks of its workforce? Guest: Tammy Kim, contributing writer at the New Yorker. Want more What Next? Join Slate Plus to unlock full, ad-free access to What Next and all your other favorite Slate podcasts. You can subscribe directly from the What Next show page on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Or, visit slate.com/whatnextplus to get access wherever you listen. Podcast production by Elena Schwartz, Paige Osburn, Anna Phillips, Madeline Ducharme, Ethan Oberman, and Rob Gunther. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:03.5	For the New Yorker's Tammy Kim, out of all of Donald Trump's cabinet picks, there was one she was tracking from the
1:12.6	beginning. Lori Chavez-Daremer, Trump's nominee for the Department of Labor.
1:22.5	She definitely stood out among the pack. Why? Because she had been sort of bipartisan. I mean,
1:29.4	she has a very slim record to go on because she only had one term in Congress. But, you know,
1:35.0	she had this sort of record of being pro-union and had good relationships with labor. And so,
1:40.0	especially on the spectrum of Trump's other nominees, she looked incredibly reasonable.
1:47.7	Chavez-Durreemar showed up for her confirmation hearing yesterday, and no one was quite sure what to
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