{"id":505236,"date":"2026-04-20T18:09:43","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T22:09:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/u-s-labor-secretary-resigns-amid-investigations\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T18:09:43","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T22:09:43","slug":"u-s-labor-secretary-resigns-amid-investigations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/u-s-labor-secretary-resigns-amid-investigations\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Labor Secretary Resigns Amid Investigations"},"content":{"rendered":"The United States Secretary of Labor, Lori Chavez-DeRemer, submitted her resignation this Monday, according to various sources close to the case, amid a series of controversies that marked her management.\n\nAccording to reports, his departure comes after weeks of pressure stemming from alleged personal scandals and an internal investigation. <strong>Among the accusations are an alleged extramarital affair with a member of his security team and allegations of \"inappropriate behavior, such as consuming alcohol during work.\"<\/strong>\n\nAfter the information was released, White House Communications Director Steven Cheung disseminated on X that, \"Secretary of Labor Lori Chavez-DeRemer will leave the Administration to take a position in the private sector.\"\n\n\"He has done a phenomenal job protecting American workers, implementing fair labor practices, and helping Americans acquire additional skills to improve their lives,\" he insisted.\n\nWe recommend reading:\n\nAfter his departure, it was announced that Keith Sonderling will assume as acting Secretary of Labor, although it is not yet clear who will be permanently nominated for the position.\n\nSources close to the White House indicated that, despite the scandals, Chavez-DeRemer was considered an effective figure for communicating the president's economic message and executing labor policies. However, the controversies surrounding her conduct had become a recurring theme within the political environment in Washington.\n\nFurthermore, her resignation comes days before a potentially difficult congressional hearing, where lawmakers, mainly Democrats, planned to question her about these accusations.\n\nError en el proceso de traducci\u00f3n\n\nError en el proceso de traducci\u00f3n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VayTEv30AgW3vHZ95u1T\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States Secretary of Labor, Lori Chavez-DeRemer, submitted her resignation this Monday, according to various sources close to the case, amid a series of controversies that marked her management. According to reports, his departure comes after weeks of pressure stemming from alleged personal scandals and an internal investigation. Among the accusations are an alleged [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":133556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-505236","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized"},"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","dum_api":{"author_name":"Yerandi Santana","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/cropped-WhatsApp-Image-2026-02-13-at-5.35.07-PM-96x96.jpeg","categories_name":["Uncategorized"],"featured_media_url":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/133556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=505236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}