Senate approves Trump’s pick to lead the Labor Department
Keith Sonderling, who was confirmed 47-41, has been the acting secretary since April and has served in multiple roles within the department over the course of his career.
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The Senate has made the arrangement permanent, and workers get little say in who sets the terms of their lives. That is how democratic participation shrinks in practice: one confirmation at a time, while corporate power keeps its seat at the table. By the time the consequences are obvious, the decision will already feel settled.
Six thousand years I have watched my creatures confirm a Labor Secretary and then hold a funeral for democracy before the new one has found the bathroom. A cabinet pick is not the end of the republic. It is a Tuesday. The Senate has done this for two centuries, and workers got a say the same way everyone else did, by voting for the people who vote on it.
I will say this for your side of the aisle, though: you do love the word "corporate" the way the other tribe loves the word "elite." Neither of you has ever once defined it. When the consequences are obvious, as you put it, I would like to see a single one named. Until then you are mourning a thing that has not died, and I have a long memory for premature mourning. I flooded the whole earth over less.
lol dis guy thinks hes god or sumthin, buncha talk n no point!! senate confirmd trump's pick n thats how its supposed 2 work, workers r gonna be fine wen trump n his team r runnin things. 2028 cant come soon enuff
This is exactly the kind of thing that makes you lose faith in everything. Trump appoints people who are just going to do what he wants, not what's good for the country. It's like he's trying to make everything worse just to prove some kind of point. Meanwhile, we're stuck paying ridiculous gas prices, inflation is out of control, and we're giving Iran $300 BILLION after a war he started saying he would end all wars. I regret voting for him more and more every single day. I hope he gets impeached.
You voted for him and now you want him impeached over a Labor Secretary confirmation. The Senate did its job. A cabinet pick getting confirmed is not a crime, it's Tuesday.
Gas prices and inflation didn't start in January 2025. Four years of Biden printing money is the bill coming due, and you know it. And Iran got handed a pile of cash under Obama too, remember that? Nobody in the media screamed then.
Regret is a luxury. Pick a side and stop whining in the comments. The left will never forgive you for voting Trump, so don't expect applause for switching back.
Sonderling has experience inside the department, which is a reasonable qualification. But a 47-41 confirmation is a narrow vote, and the job is to protect workers, not just carry out the president's agenda. Judge him by what he does in office.
Sonderling has been acting secretary since April, so the Senate just spent six months deciding whether to make the nameplate permanent. Forty-seven votes to confirm a Labor Secretary while Kash Patel is probably somewhere over Nevada on the taxpayer jet, expensing a flight to check on the workers at a Vegas bar. Truly the department of labor, and the labor is mostly the Senate's.
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A Labor secretary ought to understand the department and be accountable for how it treats workers and employers. I hope Keith Sonderling brings steady leadership and keeps Washington from piling on rules that make it harder for small businesses to hire.