When Lori Chavez-DeRemer was nominated, she had a chance to be a pathbreaking secretary of labor, supposedly tasked with shepherding the Republican Party in a more worker-friendly direction. Instead, she turned out to be a typical Trump Cabinet member: disempowered and disgraced. Now she has added dismissed to that list. Chavez-DeRemer's departure was announced yesterday evening in an X post from White House Communications Director Steven Cheung, who said she would 'take a position in the private sector.' He said that Keith Sonderling, the deputy secretary, will be acting secretary. Chavez-DeRemer is unlikely to be missed at the Labor Department, in part because it seems she was hardly ever there. Employees said that she was an absentee secretary, and Sonderling has reportedly already been effectively running the department for some time. When Chavez-DeRemer was present, she brought scandals with her. Shortly after her confirmation last spring, she threw what looked a lot like a...
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