Seventeen Democratic senators joined their Republican colleagues on Monday and voted to substantiate Lori Chavez-DeRemer as President Donald Trump’s Secretary of Labor.
The Democrats who voted with the administration: Ruben Gallego (Arizona), Mark Kelly (Arizona), Adam Schiff (California), Michael Bennet (Colorado), John Hickenlooper (Colorado), Jon Ossoff (Georgia), Raphael Warnock (Georgia), Gary Peters (Michigan), Elissa Slotkin (Michigan), Amy Klobuchar (Minnesota), Maggie Hassan (New Hampshire), Jeanne Shaheen (New Hampshire), Catherine Cortez Masto (Nevada), Jacky Rosen (Nevada), Sheldon Whitehouse (Rhode Island), Mark Warner (Virginia), and Tim Kaine (Virginia).
Twenty-nine Democrats opposed the nomination and solely three Republicans voted “no,” that means that the nomination would have superior with the 50 Republican “yes” votes even when each Democrat had voted “no.” As an alternative, the Democratic votes gave the bulk celebration bipartisan cowl. As labor secretary, Chavez-DeRemer is anticipated to hold out Trump’s anti-labor, anti-worker agenda, just like the ongoing purge of tons of of significant authorities workers beneath Elon Musk’s so-called Division of Authorities Effectivity.
The vote stands in distinction to the Democratic Celebration’s repeated claims that they’re united in opposition to Trump and his agenda. In actual fact, on the Senate degree, the celebration has voted time and again to substantiate Trump’s nominees and has supported legislative maneuvers permitting votes on nominees that they oppose in a ultimate vote.
Regardless of warning indicators like Trump’s previous political and coverage failures (see: his whole first time period) and his racist, damaging rhetoric (see: his whole life), a good portion of the Democratic Celebration has empowered him with their Senate votes. Then they ultimately remorse it. As an example, a number of senators have now gone on the document to say their votes to substantiate Secretary of State Marco Rubio (each Senate Democrat voted for him) was a mistake.
The quilt provided for Chavez-DeRemer is that her document will not be as anti-labor as Trump’s, and that she made some statements throughout her affirmation listening to that provided a average stance on labor points. (Nevertheless, she does oppose a minimum-wage enhance). However like Trump’s different nominees, reminiscent of Linda McMahon on the Division of Schooling and Sean Duffy on the Division of Transportation, Cupboard secretaries are in the end tasked with executing Trump’s imaginative and prescient.
Democrats have faltered in opposition to Trump. Celebration management has chastised just a few breakaway members for being strident in talking out towards Trump’s abuses, and have favored a much less confrontational method whilst Trump and Musk have thrown out a long time of American traditions and values.
Trump didn’t want the Democratic Celebration to put in one other pleasant face within the federal authorities, however Democrats helped him anyway.
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