Senate confirms Trump cupboard decide Chavez-DeRemer

By Ryan Foley, Christian Put up Reporter Tuesday, March 11, 2025

U.S. Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer, R-Ore., listens as the U.S. House of Representatives votes for a new Speaker of the House at the U.S. Capitol Building on Oct. 17, 2023 in Washington, DC. The House has been without an elected leader since Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) was ousted from the speakership on October 4 in a move led by a small group of conservative members of his own party. — U.S. Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer, R-Ore., listens because the U.S. Home of Representatives votes for a brand new Speaker of the Home on the U.S. Capitol Constructing on Oct. 17, 2023 in Washington, DC. The Home has been with out an elected chief since Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) was ousted from the speakership on October 4 in a transfer led by a small group of conservative members of his personal social gathering. | Anna Moneymaker/Getty Photographs

The twenty fifth member of President Donald Trump’s cupboard was confirmed Monday regardless of considerations about her previous work for Deliberate Parenthood.

The Republican-controlled Senate voted 67-32 to substantiate Lori Chavez-DeRemer because the U.S. Secretary of Labor on Monday. Whereas Sens. Ted Budd, R-N.C., Mitch McConnell, R-Ky. and Rand Paul, R-Ky. opposed her nomination, greater than a dozen Democrats supported her affirmation, enabling her nomination to sail via.

Democrats who voted for Chavez-DeRemer’s affirmation are: Sens. Michael Bennet, D-Colo., Catherine Cortez-Masto, D-Nev., Ruben Gallego, D-Ariz., Maggie Hassan, D-N.H., John Hickenlooper, D-Colo., Tim Kaine, D-Va., Mark Kelly, D-Ariz., Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., Jon Ossoff, D-Ga., Gary Peters, D-Mich., Jacky Rosen, D-Nev., Adam Schiff, D-Calif., Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., Elissa Slotkin, D-Mich., Mark Warner, D-Va., Raphael Warnock, D-Ga., and Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I.

Chavez-DeRemer made headlines final month after stories surfaced that the cupboard nominee, who served as a Republican from Oregon’s fifth Congressional District within the 118th Congress, as soon as labored at Deliberate Parenthood. She assured members of the Senate’s Well being, Labor, Schooling and Pensions Committee that “This transient, part-time job from over three a long time [ago] has no bearing on my assist for implementing President Trump’s pro-life agenda.”

“Throughout my time within the Home I had a one hundred pc pro-life voting document,” she careworn. “I personally don’t assist abortion, and if confirmed, I’d not use my place as secretary to facilitate abortion entry in Labor Division applications. My job can be to implement President Trump’s agenda.”

The group Susan B. Anthony Professional-Life America gave Chavez-DeRemer a grade of “B” on its Nationwide Professional-Life Scorecard, explaining that, “Whereas Congresswoman Chavez-DeRemer’s voting document is pro-life, disappointingly, she has additionally publicly opposed passage of payments that may completely cease taxpayer funding of abortion throughout the federal authorities and cease the Biden-Harris administration’s harmful and unlawful mail-order abortion medicine coverage.”

Practically two months into his presidency, the Senate has confirmed 25 of Trump’s cupboard nominees. Different nominees authorized by the Senate embody former Democrats Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Tulsi Gabbard to serve of their respective roles as secretary of Well being and Human Companies and the director of Nationwide Intelligence, in addition to Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Secretary of Protection Pete Hegseth, Central Intelligence Company Director John Ratcliffe and Homeland Safety Secretary Kristi Noem.

Different officers confirmed to the Trump cupboard embody: Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent, Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy, Environmental Safety Company Administrator Lee Zeldin, Secretary of the Inside Doug Burgum, Secretary of Vitality Christopher Wright, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Doug Collins, Lawyer Normal Pam Bondi, Secretary of Housing and City Growth Eric Turner, Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins, Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick and Small Enterprise Administration Administrator Kelly Loeffler.

Moreover Chavez-DeRemer, the newest additions to the Trump cupboard are FBI Director Kash Patel, Secretary of the Military Daniel Driscoll, U.S. Commerce Consultant Jamieson Greer, Secretary of Schooling Linda McMahon, Deputy Lawyer Normal Todd Blanche and Deputy Secretary of Homeland Safety Troy Edgar.

A number of of Trump’s cupboard nominees nonetheless await Senate affirmation, together with U.S. Ambassador to the Holy See nominee Brian Burch and Nationwide Institutes of Well being Director nominee Jay Bhattacharya. Others who’ve but to be confirmed by the Senate embody U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations hopeful Elise Stefanik, Trump’s decide to function U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee and Trump’s nominee to guide the Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention Dave Weldon.

Ryan Foley is a reporter for The Christian Put up. He might be reached at: [email protected]