By U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) | March 6, 2024 | The Daily Caller
For decades, both Democrats and Republicans put the interests of Wall Street over the interests of hardworking American families.
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That all changed with Donald Trump. He offered a different vision — redefining the GOP as the party of working people, winning victories on promises of better jobs, reshoring manufacturing and industry, and immigration policies that put American workers first. And my Republican colleagues in the Senate were happy to get on board.
Already, however, it seems the Old Thinking is rearing its head again. Some of my colleagues are balking at President Trump’s choice of Lori Chavez-DeRemer for Secretary of Labor. As her confirmation hangs in the balance, Republicans should resist the temptation to relapse into the destructive division between business and labor that sabotaged American workers for too long. If we care about the working class as we claim to, we must confirm the President’s pick.
As a member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, I had the opportunity to question Chavez-DeRemer at a recent hearing. Her answers gave me confidence.
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There’s nothing more conservative than being supportive of working people. We’ve seen the dystopian results of the opposite: shuttered factories, a gutted rust belt, flatlined wages, soaring mortgage costs, usurious credit card interest rates, and plunging home values.
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Rebuilding America requires a flourishing family life. It means making it easy to have children, restoring parents as the pillars of home life, and making it our mission to ensure American workers can earn a family wage. The dignity of a decent job and a steady income is the first step.
This is exactly the kind of pro-worker, America-first labor policy voters wanted when they elected President Trump. Lori Chavez-DeRemer fits Trump’s vision. I’m proud to support his nominee. My colleagues should do the same.
Read Senator Hawley’s full op-ed here.