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Trump Accepts Chavez-DeRemer Resignation, Appoints Acting Labor Secretary

4/23/2026

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Chavez-DeRemer Resigns

Chavez-DeRemer becomes the third Trump Cabinet official to depart in 2026 after Kristi Noem and Pam Bondi.
President Donald Trump accepted the resignation of Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer, appointing Deputy Labor Secretary Keith Sonderling as acting secretary.
Four Labor Department officials, including her chief of staff and a security-detail member, were dismissed.
She rolled back 60 workplace rules, cut home-health minimum-wage protections, and ended child-labor grants.

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Chavez-DeRemer Resigns

The cabinet turnover marks the third removal of a female secretary, each replaced by a male successor.
Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer resigned after being summoned by the White House following an inspector general probe.
The investigation alleged she had an affair with a security detail member.
Congressional committees questioned her conduct after a probe barred her husband from the department building.

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Chavez-DeRemer Resigns

Chavez-DeRemer becomes the third Trump Cabinet official to depart in 2026 after Kristi Noem and Pam Bondi.
President Donald Trump accepted the resignation of Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer, appointing Deputy Labor Secretary Keith Sonderling as acting secretary.
Four Labor Department officials, including her chief of staff and a security-detail member, were dismissed.
She rolled back 60 workplace rules, cut home-health minimum-wage protections, and ended child-labor grants.

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