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.

  • squiblet
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    2910 months ago

    The GOP thinks their job is to obstruct anything a Democratic president tries to accomplish, and then they can say he didn’t get anything done.

    • @[email protected]
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      10 months ago

      What’s the GOP platform look like for re-election: “we’ve done nothing at all, really”

      • idunnololz
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        810 months ago

        “Biden did nothing, elect us instead (so we can make everything even worse!)”

      • @RunningInRVA
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        310 months ago

        Sadly I don’t think the GOP has come up with any good policy in nearly a decade. I think in 2020 they just photocopied their 2016 policy book, which was nothing more than to wreck healthcare even more than it’s already wrecked.

        • @captainlezbian
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          210 months ago

          Oh yeah their 2020 platform included criticism of “the current president”