{"id":39536,"date":"2025-03-10T18:25:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-10T23:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=39536"},"modified":"2025-03-10T20:34:37","modified_gmt":"2025-03-11T01:34:37","slug":"mcconnell-criticizes-and-votes-no-on-trump-labor-pick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=39536","title":{"rendered":"McConnell criticizes and votes no on Trump Labor pick"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Former Senate Republican Leader&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/people\/mitch-mcconnell\/\"><u>Mitch McConnell\u2002<\/u><\/a>(Ky.) was one of three Senate Republicans to vote Monday against former Rep.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/people\/lori-chavez\/\"><u>Lori Chavez-DeRemer\u2002<\/u><\/a>(R-Ore.), President Trump\u2019s nominee to head the Labor Department, criticizing her for supporting policies \u201cthat force hardworking Americans into union membership.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Chavez-DeRemer, a former House GOP lawmaker from Washington state, is the fourth high-profile Trump nominee McConnell has voted against. He previously voted against Defense Secretary&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/people\/pete-hegseth\/\"><u>Pete Hegseth,<\/u><\/a>&nbsp;Director of National Intelligence&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/people\/tulsi-gabbard\/\"><u>Tulsi Gabbard\u2002<\/u><\/a>and Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">\u201cThe American people demand and deserve change after four years of economic heartache under the \u2018most pro-union administration in American history.\u2019 Unfortunately, Lori Chavez-DeRemer\u2019s record pushing policies that force hardworking Americans into union membership suggests more of the same,\u201d McConnell said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">He argued that most Americans believe that joining a union should be a personal choice, not a mandate, and he noted that Kentucky has adopted a \u201cright-to-work\u201d law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">\u201cSecretary Chavez-DeRemer will have a critical opportunity to put the interests of working families ahead of Big Labor bosses by empowering every American worker to join a union on their terms. I hope she takes it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Republican Sens. Ted Budd (N.C.) and Rand Paul (Ky.) also voted against the nominee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The Senate confirmed Chavez-DeRemer on Monday by a vote of 67 to 32 after a large number of Democrats voted for her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/senate\/5187104-mcconnell-votes-against-chavez-remer\/\">thehill<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Senate Republican Leader&nbsp;Mitch McConnell\u2002(Ky.) was one of three Senate Republicans to vote Monday against former Rep.&nbsp;Lori Chavez-DeRemer\u2002(R-Ore.), President Trump\u2019s nominee to head the Labor Department, criticizing her for supporting policies \u201cthat force hardworking Americans into union membership.\u201d Chavez-DeRemer, a former House GOP lawmaker from Washington state, is the fourth high-profile Trump nominee McConnell has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":39537,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1507,28036,1230],"class_list":["post-39536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-labor","tag-mcconnell","tag-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39536"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39538,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39536\/revisions\/39538"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/39537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}