Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) said he cannot support Lori Chavez-DeRemer, President Donald Trump’s pick for Labor Secretary, if she still favors the PRO Act, as he said it would override all the right-to-work state laws and result in a “transformation that would be such an assault on freedom of choice for employees, that you can’t imagine.”
Paul explained that 28 states have right-to-work laws, and when one compares the economics — unemployment, economic growth, and other factors, the right to work states “are just killing it.”
“Most of these are throughout the South. Kentucky became one about five years ago, but there’s at least 28 states, maybe a few more, that are right-to-work. And basically, just as you don’t have compulsory union dues, you can still have unions, you can still do collective bargaining, you just can’t force people out of the workplace if they don’t want to pay dues for political reasons.
“And this is what the national right-to-work does. It would become a national law,” he said before turning to his issues with Trump’s labor secretary nominee, explaining that she supported something called the PRO Act.
“And the PRO Act would not only not have right-to-work nationally, but it would preempt and override all the state laws. It would repeal the state right-to-work laws. This would be a transformation that would be such an assault on freedom of choice for employees that you can’t imagine,” Paul warned, reminding listeners this would affect 28 states right off the bat.
Paul noted that he has yet to oppose any of Trump’s nominees, but as a supporter of the right-to-work movement, he said he cannot support her.
“This is pretty dramatic, and I have not opposed any of Trump’s nominees, but, you know, I lead the effort for a national law, and I’ve been a big supporter of the state laws, been close to the right-to-work movement for a decade or more, and so I can’t in good conscience support her since she supported the PRO Act,” he said, noting that he plans to ask her at Thursday’s hearing if she is willing to renounce her support of it.
He said if she does renounce it, she will no longer receive support from any Democrats.
“But then there’s a question of whether or not she’ll pick up me or others, whether or not we believe she’s sincere. She’s in a tough bind. But, you know, they should have thought about this when they picked her, because there are a lot of other people that are pro-worker, pro-labor. You know, I’d be happy to have somebody who is in a labor union, frankly. I know a lot of people who are truck drivers for UPS. I know people who are pilots for UPS. I know people who are in different types of unions. You could have easily picked somebody from it — that leads a union,” he said, “is friendly to unions … without picking somebody who wanted to get rid of all the right-to-work laws. So they just want one step too far.”
Paul said he has met with Chavez-DeRemer and described her as a “pleasant” person, noting he does not dislike her personally, but in order to get his vote she would have to “publicly profess that she’s no longer in favor of the PRO Act,” at the bare minimum.
That aside, Paul said Trump has done a “tremendous” job with his nominees, noting that he would choose many of the same if he were in the same position as commander-in-chief.
All in all, for the most part, Paul said, “I’ve been ecstatic about what he’s doing.”
While Donald Trump has made multiple excellent choices for his cabinet and agency heads, his choice for Labor secretary is opposed to a key part of his platform (making America prosperous) and is endorsed by the most woke, dictatorial, and radical of teacher union heads.
Lori Chavez-DeRemer, former Planned Parenthood employee and loyal union stooge, needs to be replaced — Trump should never have chosen her. In fact, she’s an absolute gift to the most leftist and most corrupt unions. It is one thing to appeal to union membership, as Trump undoubtedly did in the last election, and another thing to place a radical union ally in a position of high federal authority.
Chavez-DeRemer has, for instance, backed the PRO Act, a condemnable piece of legislation that aims to launch “a federal takeover of state law that would turn union organizers loose on nearly every government employee—including teachers, state agency employees, county workers, law enforcement, and first responders.” The most powerful unions — the same ones who donate 96% of PAC cash to Democrats — would have a say in daily government management and could reach a larger nationwide fundraising base.
The legislation was so obviously problematic that Chavez-DeRemer was one of only three Republicans in the house to support it when she was a congresswoman. You can read more about why the PRO Act is awful from my colleague Stephen Kruiser.
It’s no wonder, therefore, that Chavez-DeRemer was endorsed by Randi Weingarten, the lesbian wackadoodle American Federation of Teachers head who was devastated by Trump‘s election and who ensured that schools would stay closed and tank American kids’ education during Covid. “It is significant that the Pres-elect nominated Rep. Chavez-DeRemer for Labor,” Weingarten enthused. “Her record suggests real support of workers & their right to unionize. I hope it means the Trump admin will actually respect collective bargaining and workers' voices from Teamsters to teachers.”
Let’s list a few reasons why praise from pro-Kamala, anti-Trump LGBTQ Randi Weingarten—the walking advertisement for homeschooling—is such a damning anti-endorsement of Chavez-DeRemer. First, Weingarten exerted pressure not only to close schools during COVID-19 but to keep them closed long after it was apparent the children were more at risk from lockdowns than from COVID-19. She ended up gathering over $180 billion in taxpayer funds for schools, based on her demands for massive government largesse before reopening, much of which was reportedly not spent or was not spent on school reopening. As I have likewise previously reported: "Soon after the 2016 election, Weingarten scare-mongered about the incoming Trump administration and urged her fellow teachers to expend effort on promoting LGBTQ ideology both in their schools and at the policymaking level. In 2023, Weingarten was furious at efforts to remove critical race theory and LGBTQ propaganda, including pornographic content, from schools. She wants teachers to be able to 'gender transition' students, too, and has consistently prioritized LGBTQ brainwashing as AFT president."
Weingarten declared that she wept with joy while voting for Kamala Harris. After Trump’s 2024 election, Weingarten has been on an anti-Trump and anti-DOGE binge, including asserting that deportations of criminal illegal aliens “are traumatizing to all children.” She hysterically accused DOGE of causing “irreparable damage in the lives of working people” by cutting egregious government waste. Yet she supports Chavez-DeRemer.
Indeed, it seems safe to say that if you support the DOGE branch of the Trump administration, with its aggressive reforms and prioritizing of We the People over the Deep State, then you cannot but be opposed to Trump‘s shockingly awful pick for Labor secretary. Tell your senators not to confirm Chavez-DeRemer. Donald Trump can do a lot better for America’s workers than this leftist teachers’ union favorite.
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