Huffington Post - President-elect Donald Trump announced Friday that he would nominate outgoing Republican Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer to be his labor secretary.“Lori has worked tirelessly with both Business and Labor to build America’s workforce, and support the hardworking men and women of America,” Trump said in a statement.
Chavez-DeRemer lost her House reelection bid earlier this month after serving one term in Congress. A union-friendly Republican, she had the backing of Teamsters President Sean O’Brien to lead the Labor Department under Trump.
The incoming president’s choice of Chavez-DeRemer is a surprise considering her track record of working with labor groups. She was a rare Republican supporter of the Protecting the Right to Organize Act, which would dramatically overhaul labor law to make it easier to form unions. Business groups have vehemently opposed the legislation. The anti-union National Right to Work Committee had publicly opposed Chavez-DeRemer for the labor role, saying she should “have no place in the Trump administration” due to her pro-union views.
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MSN - Planned Parenthood says it's seen a 1,200% spike in vasectomy appointments as Musk's DOGE targets it for cuts
X - Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski just made a bold move, declaring she
won’t support any of President Trump’s nominees unless they undergo full
FBI vetting. This marks a significant development and could have major
implications for the administration’s agenda.
Raw Story - Walmart — the world's largest retailer — issued a warning to customers that they may pay more for the same products if President-elect Donald Trump makes good on his promise to impose new tariffs on imports.
Walmart's
finance chief, John David Rainey, acknowledged that new tariffs would
likely be passed on to the people buying goods imported from overseas, Fortune reported Friday. Currently, anywhere from 70% to 80% of goods sold at Walmart are made in China, and could be affected by potential new tariffs. In September, PBS reported that Trump proposed tariffs as high as 60% on imports from China, and 20% tariffs on products made elsewhere. "Tariffs are going to be inflationary, there’s no disputing that," Rainey said earlier this week.
Trump offered up the real nutcases to test the Senate, knowing some would fall by the wayside, so after throwing red meat to his acolytes, he presents someone more competent and even more evil but the furor over the nut casesmakes thiis a less challenging environment.for the comoetent evil.
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