Trump Picks Oregon Congresswoman For Labor Secretary

 President-elect Donald Trump announced Friday night that he has selected Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer (R-OR) to be the next U.S. Secretary of Labor.

Chavez-DeRemer, 56, a first-term member of Congress who lost her re-election bid earlier this month, has “worked tirelessly with both Business and Labor to build America’s workforce, and support the hardworking men and women of America,” Trump said in a statement.

“I look forward to working with her to create tremendous opportunity for American Workers, to expand Training and Apprenticeships, to grow wages and improve working conditions, to bring back our Manufacturing jobs,” he added. “Together, we will achieve historic cooperation between Business and Labor that will restore the American Dream for Working Families.”

Chavez-DeRemer said that working-class Americans would now have a “lifeline” to rely upon inside the administration.

“It’s time to bring our economy to new heights and secure a prosperous future for all hardworking Americans,” she said.

Lori Chavez-DeRemer began working in public service in 2002 when she served on the Happy Valley Parks Committee in Oregon.

 

She later won a seat on the Happy Valley City Council and became city council president.

By 2010, she was elected the town’s first Latina mayor and was re-elected in 2014.

She ran for Congress in Oregon’s 5th Congressional District in 2022 and won, becoming “one of the first Latinas and is the first Republican woman elected to Congress from the state of Oregon,” the Trump transition team said.

Chavez-DeRemer is a mother and a small business owner. Her husband is an anesthesiologist, and together they own several medical practices in the region.