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Why this Trump nominee’s affirmation may go down in flames

Editorial Board Published February 18, 2025
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Lori Chavez-DeRemer, Oregon’s first Republican congresswoman and President Donald Trump’s choose for labor secretary, may very well be the president’s first Cupboard choose to not have sufficient congressional help for her bid.

After all, by first we’re deliberately excluding former Rep. Matt Gaetz, Trump’s first alternative for lawyer basic who resigned as soon as his penchant for allegedly paying minors for intercourse at drug-fueled events got here to the forefront.

Not like Gaetz, Chavez-DeRemer isn’t essentially suffering from scandal. However some Republicans on the Senate’s Well being, Training, Labor, and Pensions Committee stay deeply suspicious of her union bonafides, which they are saying conflict with the enterprise neighborhood. Since one Republican, Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky, is already towards her bid, the GOP goes to wish a Democrat on the committee to cross over and vote for her.


Sen. Rand Paul

“Her support for the PRO Act, which would not only oppose national right to work but would pre-empt state law on right to work—I think it’s not a good thing,” Paul mentioned in January. “And it’d be sort of hard for me, since it’s a big issue for me, to support her. So I won’t support her.” 

Paul warned final month that as many as 15 Republicans may reject her nomination. However Chavez-DeRemer arguably can’t afford a second Republican defection, at the very least in committee. 

As Semafor reported, Cupboard nominees can progress to the Senate flooring with a non-favorable suggestion, but it surely’s uncommon. The GOP reportedly weighed doing this to assist get Tulsi Gabbard, the newly appointed director of nationwide intelligence, over the end line however in the end didn’t have to as all Republicans on the Senate Intelligence Committee endorsed her bid.

It’s potential that given Chavez-DeRemer’s pro-labor views, a number of the committee’s 11 Democrats may vote in her favor. In spite of everything, the occasion is doing little to this point to cease Trump’s unqualified picks from getting confirmed. And in response to Semafor, Sens. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) Patty Murray (D-WA), and Bernie Sanders (I-VT) haven’t dominated out supporting her bid.

“I’ll give her a fair shake,” Baldwin instructed the outlet.

She added, “I try to view each nominee through the lens of whether they will help or hurt Wisconsin.”

No matter whether or not Chavez-DeRemer is really pro-union, it will be wealthy if Democrats had been accountable for serving to her make it previous the primary Senate committee hurdle. Not solely would that characterize a break from Trump’s previous Cupboard appointees (Gabbard, Protection Secretary Pete Hegseth, and Well being and Human Providers Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. all relied on GOP help to beat committee and the ground) however it will be a nasty search for a celebration that’s purported to be resisting Trump.

As a substitute, Democrats ought to use the opening given to them by Paul’s no-vote to sink a Trump nominee. This can be a essential time for the occasion and members want to make use of each software of their arsenal, together with blocking nominations when potential, to decelerate Trump’s agenda.

Assuming the president’s labor choose makes it previous the Senate’s HELP Committee—which remains to be an enormous if—some members of Congress have predicted she’ll be superb ought to her nomination go to the Senate flooring. 

Sen. John Fetterman (D–PA), Trump’s favourite Democrat, has already mentioned he’d vote for her, which means Chavez-DeRemer may lose 4 Republicans and nonetheless get confirmed.

“Is she controversial now? She was very pro-labor and supported the Pro Act, and I plan to vote yes, until they find a way that she’s controversial and turn it into more drama,” Fetterman instructed Semafor of Chavez-DeRemer’s upcoming vote.

Chavez-DeRemer will seem earlier than the Senate HELP Committee on Wednesday at 10 AM ET.

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