Biden renominates Julie Su for labor secretary after Senate declined to confirm her for ten months
The White House says that President Joe Biden has renominated Julie Su to serve as labor secretary, whose confirmation languished in the Senate for more than 10 months
The White House announced Monday that President Joe Biden has renominated Julie Su to serve as labor secretary as her confirmation has languished in the Senate for more than 10 months.
The decision to renominate Su, who has served as acting labor secretary since Marty Walsh vacated the role last February, was widely expected.
Su’s nomination cleared a key Senate committee in April, but with no Republicans on record supporting her, the Biden administration and her backers have scrambled to lock down 50 Democratic votes needed to confirm her. Wavering senators say that she had minimal experience in negotiations between workers and management, and point to perceptions that she's anti-business.
Isn't the labor secretary being anti-business in the job description? What use is an anti-labor labor secretary?
Any GOOD labor secretary is, yes. The GOP and the right wing of the Democrat Party don't want a good one, though. They want someone who's anti-labor or at least a total pushover.
But being pro-business over labor is the job Republicans are being paid to do.
The Republicans and Sinema. Possibly Angus King and some conservative Dems too.