{"id":1863939,"date":"2023-02-28T15:35:31","date_gmt":"2023-02-28T20:35:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1863939"},"modified":"2023-02-28T15:38:31","modified_gmt":"2023-02-28T20:38:31","slug":"biden-taps-scandal-plagued-official-to-lead-labor-department","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-taps-scandal-plagued-official-to-lead-labor-department\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Taps Scandal-Plagued Official to Lead Labor Department"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbiden-taps-scandal-plagued-official-to-lead-labor-department%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1863939&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<\/p>\n<p>Julie Su was California&#8217;s labor chief. She oversaw fraudulent unemployment payments totalling billions of dollars. Deputy Labor secretary Julie Su (Photo: Roy Rochlin\/Getty Image for One Fair Wage).    <\/p>\n<p>Vice secretary Julie Su was nominated by President Joe Biden to be secretary of labor. This pick could face bipartisan resistance due to Su&#8217;s connections to California&#8217;s multibillion dollar unemployment fraud scandal.<\/p>\n<p>Su will act as acting secretary until the Senate approves. This replaces Marty Walsh, who has resigned to head the National Hockey League Player&#8217;s Association. Su was previously the head of California&#8217;s labor department.<\/p>\n<p>Su, California&#8217;s secretary to labor, oversaw fraudulent payments totaling billions of dollars through the state\u2019s unemployment system. <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/bidens-pick-for-top-labor-spot-oversaw-fraudulent-broken-unemployment-system\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a>. Bipartisan criticism was levelled at Su&#8217;s 2021 Senate confirmation hearing for fraud and broken websites.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;California is not a model to emulate for the rest of the country,&#8221; Richard Burr, then-senator (R.N.C.). &#8220;What&#8217;s worse about the fraud committed on California and the U.S. taxpayer is that it was entirely preventable.&#8221; In a narrow vote of 50 to 47, the Senate approved Su&#8217;s nomination.<\/p>\n<p>The Biden administration is satisfied with Su&#8217;s selection, according to the AP <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/julie-su-labor-biden-cabinet-asian-american-2bd9b13b9cffa0511cf667cbfdafb299\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><em>Biden was under pressure from the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus, other Asian American and Pacific Islander advocates, to choose Su to lead the department. This administration, despite being the most diverse in history, was the first to have no Cabinet secretary from AAPI descent. Kamala Harris, Vice President, and Katherine Tai, U.S. Trade Representative are both of AAPI descent. However they don&#8217;t head a Cabinet department.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Su, if confirmed would also increase the number women who serve in the president&#8217;s Cabinet.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Biden referred to Su&#8217;s involvement in negotiations between the administration &#038; rail workers in 2022. Biden has praised the avoidance of a strike, but rail workers claimed he was not responsible. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2022\/12\/02\/1140265413\/rail-workers-biden-unions-freight-railroads-averted-strike\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2022\/12\/02\/1140265413\/rail-workers-biden-unions-freight-railroads-averted-strike&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1677697262414000&#038;usg=AOvVaw0fjSzVjy2itAgRkCC7Uud9\">&#8220;turned his back on us&#8221;<\/a> For omitting paid sick leave<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden nominated deputy secretary Julie Su to serve as secretary of labor, a pick that could face bipartisan pushback over Su&#8217;s ties to California&#8217;s multibillion-dollar unemployment fraud scandal.<br \/>\nThe post Biden Taps Scandal-Plagued Official to Lead Labor Department appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1613,"featured_media":1863942,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[3620,4724,4832,6961,4808,5140,4736],"class_list":["post-1863939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon","tag-biden","tag-department","tag-labor","tag-lead","tag-official","tag-scandal-plagued","tag-taps"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1863939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1613"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1863939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1863939\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1863942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1863939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1863939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1863939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}