Trump names first-term congressman Chavez-Diremer as labor secretary

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has named Representative Lori Chavez-Diremer as the second secretary of labor for the administration.

"Chávez-Diremer has worked tirelessly with business and labor to build America's workforce and support hard-working American men and women," Trump said in a statement on Tuesday local time.

"With him, I hope to create tremendous opportunities for American workers, expand training and apprenticeships, raise wages and improve working conditions to restore manufacturing jobs," he added.

Trump also said the historic collaboration between business and labor would revive the American dream for working families, stressing that "with strong support from business and labor for Laurie, the Department of Labor will be able to unite all Americans."

Chavez-Diremer, who began his public career with the Happy Valley City Parks Commission in Oregon in 2002, was elected as the city's first Hispanic mayor in 2014.

During the 2022 federal congressional elections, she became Oregon's first female Republican congresswoman when she ran for and won the state's 5th Congressional District.

This is the fourth time Trump has nominated a federal congressman to key positions in his second administration, but the number of House Republicans with a majority in the 119th Congress, which will be launched in January next year, remains unchanged as Chavez-Diremer failed to win reelection in an election that coincided with this year's presidential election.

U.S. media analyzed that Trump's nomination of Chavez-Diremer to labor secretary appears to be due to his close relationship with labor.