Lori Chavez-DeRemer is out as Labor Secretary. She resigned this weekend amid a flurry of staff resignations, and if you’re waiting for the outrage from our side — pull up a chair, because it’s not coming.
Here’s the thing about Chavez-DeRemer that most of us figured out about five minutes after her nomination was announced: she was never really one of us. This was the Labor Secretary who was openly pro-union, who cozied up to Big Labor like they were long-lost sorority sisters, and who had half of conservative media raising their eyebrows from day one. She was a head-scratcher of a pick — like ordering a salad at a steakhouse.
So when an investigation into possible misconduct started, nobody rushed to her defense. Compare that to how Democrats operate. When one of THEIR people gets caught doing something shady, they circle the wagons so fast it would make your head spin. Ilhan Omar could get caught selling state secrets out of the trunk of her car and Hakeem Jeffries would be on CNN within the hour calling it a “right-wing smear campaign.”
But Trump? Trump lets the process work. A cabinet member isn’t performing or gets caught up in a probe? Out. Gone. Don’t let the door hit you on the way out. That’s not weakness — that’s accountability. Something the other side couldn’t spell if you spotted them the first eleven letters.
Now, we don’t know every detail of the misconduct investigation yet, and frankly, it doesn’t matter much. What matters is the response. The Trump administration didn’t stonewall. They didn’t send surrogates out to trash the investigators. They didn’t claim it was all a vast conspiracy. Chavez-DeRemer handed in her resignation and the White House accepted it.
The Democrats, meanwhile, are going to try to turn this into a “chaos in the Trump White House” narrative. You can already see the CNN chyrons being typed up. “ANOTHER TRUMP CABINET DEPARTURE” in big scary letters, as if a president holding his own people accountable is somehow a scandal.
You want to talk about scandals? Let’s talk about how Eric Swalwell — the guy who was literally sleeping with a Chinese spy — sat on the House Intelligence Committee for YEARS and Democrats said nothing. Let’s talk about Bob Menendez stuffing gold bars into his jacket pockets like he was trick-or-treating at Fort Knox. THOSE are scandals. A Labor Secretary resigning when things got messy? That’s called governance.
So whoever gets the nod next for Labor — and we’re hoping it’s someone who actually understands that crushing union boss corruption is part of the job description — we welcome the upgrade.
