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What Trump's labor secretary nominee Lori Chavez-DeRemer signals to unions

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    -2% Center

  • Reliability

    85% ReliableGood

  • Policy Leaning

    -24% Somewhat Liberal

  • Politician Portrayal

    17% Positive

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

80% : Trump went on to say that Chavez-DeRemer's "strong support from both the Business and Labor communities will ensure that the Labor Department can unite Americans of all backgrounds behind our Agenda for unprecedented National Success.
66% : "I am proud to hereby nominate Congresswoman Lori Chavez-DeRemer, from the Great State of Oregon, as United States Secretary of Labor," Trump said in a statement emailed to Newsweek.
59% : "She cosponsored the Public Service Freedom to Negotiate Act, the PRO Act, and other pro-student, pro-public school, pro-worker legislation.
53% : O'Brien thanked Trump "for putting American workers first" by choosing Chavez-DeRemer while sharing a picture of himself with both Republicans alongside a statement posted to X within minutes of the president-elect's announcement.
49% : She asserted that "working-class Americans finally have a lifeline with [Trump] in the White House" and predicted that he would "bring our economy to new heights and secure a prosperous future for all hardworking Americans.
49% : "Nearly a year ago, you joined us for a Teamsters roundtable and pledged to listen to workers and find common ground to protect and respect labor in America," O'Brien said, addressing Trump.
41% : "Chavez-DeRemer, who lost her House seat to Democrat Janelle Bynum earlier this month, thanked Trump for her nomination in a post to X, formerly Twitter.
38% : ""During her time in Congress, Lori Chavez-DeRemer voted against gutting the Department of Education, against school vouchers, and against cuts to education funding," Pringle said.
37% : Kristen Swearingen, the chair of the anti-union business group Coalition for a Democratic Workplace, expressed "alarm" in a statement released just after news broke that Trump was considering Chavez-DeRemer earlier this week.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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