EXCLUSIVE: ‘Avoidable And Unconscionable’: GOP Rep Looks To Thwart Potential Trump Resistance In Department Of Labor
Republican North Carolina Rep. Virginia Foxx wrote to Department of Labor (DOL) Acting Secretary Julie Su Monday to ensure the agency continues to perform casework during the remainder of President Joe Biden’s lame duck…
Republican North Carolina Rep. Virginia Foxx wrote to Department of Labor (DOL) Acting Secretary Julie Su Monday to ensure the agency continues to perform casework during the remainder of President Joe Biden’s lame duck term.
During the 2016-2017 transition from former President Barack Obama to President-elect Donald Trump, the DOL slowed or ceased processing casework, creating a backlog of “hundreds of cases” and preventing everyday Americans from accessing needed assistance such as workers’ compensation, according to an oversight letter from the House Committee on Education and the Workforce obtained exclusively by the Daily Caller News Foundation. Now, Foxx is trying to prevent Biden’s DOL from engaging in similar obstructionist behavior, requesting the DOL provide weekly updates to the Office of Congressional and Intergovernmental Affairs from Dec. 6 until shortly before Inauguration Day.
“It is the Committee’s understanding that, under the Obama administration, DOL either significantly slowed or quit processing casework in 2016-2017, leaving the incoming Trump administration with a backlog of hundreds of cases,” Foxx wrote. “These avoidable and unconscionable delays hampered the incoming administration and delayed redress for hundreds of Americans.”