WASHINGTON: President Joe Biden is nominating Julie Su, the current deputy and former California official, as his next labour secretary, replacing the departing incumbent, former Boston Mayor Marty Walsh. Su, a civil rights attorney and former head of California's labour department, was central t
WASHINGTON: President Joe Biden is nominating Julie Su, the current deputy and former California official, as his next labour secretary, replacing the departing incumbent, former Boston Mayor Marty Walsh.
Biden had been under pressure from the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus and other Asian American and Pacific Islander advocates to select Su to head the department. This administration was the first in more than two decades to not have a Cabinet secretary of AAPI descent, despite its regular declarations that it was the most diverse in history. Vice President Kamala Harris and US Trade Representative Katherine Tai are of AAPI descent but don’t lead a Cabinet department.
“The president couldn’t have picked a better nominee," he told reporters."I’m really excited about her, and we’re going to move to consider her nomination very, very quickly.” But Louisiana Sen. Bill Cassidy, the top Republican on the Senate health, education and labour committee who opposed Su when she was selected for deputy secretary, called her work overseeing the department"troubling" and"anti-worker".
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