Along with wanting to abolish the Electoral College, delusional Democrats continue to melt down over the fact that President-elect Donald Trump won resoundingly and has a mandate to lead when he is inaugurated on January 20, 2025. So they are throwing things at the wall: from selling off materials for the border wall to trying to pack in activist judges to trying to find ways to extend the shelf life of Biden’s poor labor picks. The latest dumb play: getting Acting Secretary of Labor Julie Su confirmed by the Senate so that she can have the title “Secretary of Labor.”
You cannot make this stuff up.
President Biden joined workers’ advocates at the U.S. Labor Department this week to designate a new national monument in honor of FDR’s long-serving labor secretary, Frances Perkins, who famously established the minimum wage, the 40-hour work week, a ban on child labor and myriad other protections.
The gathering was also a chance for the labor community to celebrate another one of their fierce advocates: Biden’s acting secretary of labor, Julie Su.
Their version of celebration is our version of rewarding failure, and nothing embodies this word like Julie Su’s career.
And yet, Su’s legacy will likely be marked with an asterisk. For despite all the labor wins that the Biden administration can claim, getting Su confirmed as labor secretary isn’t among them.
“[She] has led the Department of Labor in a way that Secretary Perkins would be damn proud of,” said AFL-CIO president Liz Shuler in her introduction to Su. “She has taken the fight to anyone who tries to exploit working people. She has stood with our unions. She has turned DOL into a true house of labor.”
We have documented well in these pages not only the damage Julie Su left in her wake when she was California Governor Gavin Newsom’s Secretary of Labor but also her incompetence as a placeholder at the US DOL. Her nomination was a bone of contention from Day One, and the Senate ultimately refused to confirm her. But sycophantic shills like AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler play the woman card (suddenly they know what that is) as the reason why Su failed to reach confirmation.
“It should have happened two years ago,” said Shuler in an interview, adding that Su, like her predecessor Perkins, is somewhat of an unsung hero.
Unsung hero? More like unsung zero.
“That’s often how women leaders end up in our history books — that their work is often behind the scenes. It’s not recognized and appreciated like it should be.”
Oh, we fully recognized her work, which wasn’t behind the scenes at all. Su perpetually thumbed her nose at Congressional oversight, not to mention small business and independent professionals. She had ample time to run around to every union-focused rally and event and sit at the table to hear their concerns while ignoring the cries of 64 million independent professionals and dodging oversight committee subpoenas.
But even now, as the Biden era draws to a close, Su’s staunchest supporters on Capitol Hill haven’t given up.
“I’m doing everything I can to get Julie Su confirmed as Secretary of Labor before President Biden leaves office,” Illinois Sen. Tammy Duckworth wrote in a statement to NPR. “It would represent long overdue recognition of the incredible work she’s done for years — without the title she so obviously deserves.”
What Su deserves is prison for defrauding California taxpayers to the tune of $36 billion.
