forced out<\/a> amid an investigation into misconduct at the agency.\n <\/p>\n\n For months, the Labor Department\u2019s Inspector General\u2019s Office has been investigating a complaint that Chavez-DeRemer was having a sexual relationship with a member of her security team, as well as other allegations of inappropriate behavior, such as sending staff to pick up liquor and attempting to use business trips as excuses for personal travel, according to a Department of Labor source with knowledge of the situation.\n <\/p>\n
\n For example, Chavez-DeRemer had expressed a desire to go to events such as a UFC fight in Chicago, a Morgan Wallen concert and to see friends and family in various states, and asked staff to design work trips that would provide her openings to attend those events, the source said.\n <\/p>\n
\n Chavez-DeRemer\u2019s lawyer, Nick Oberheiden, said in a statement to CNN before her new job was announced, \u201cSecretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer has made a name for herself as a zealous advocate for American workers. Mission-focused and committed to President Trump with utmost loyalty, Secretary Chavez-DeRemer will not comment on biased and absurd allegations against her.\u201d\n <\/p>\n
\n Chavez-DeRemer was sworn in as secretary of Labor in March 2025, a time when the Trump administration, via the Department of Government Efficiency, sought to slash federal funding, cut programs and drastically reduce the federal workforce by cutting hundreds of thousands of jobs.\n <\/p>\n
\n Reductions in staffing at the Bureau of Labor Statistics, in particular, stoked concern from policymakers, economists, academics, researchers and others, who sounded the alarm that existing funding and staffing were not adequate to make the \u201cgold-standard\u201d data more modernized and robust. And the agency faced acute upheaval when Trump fired Commissioner Erika McEntarfer following a jobs report that contained large revisions.\n <\/p>\n
\n In the days following McEntarfer\u2019s firing, Chavez-DeRemer told Fox Business that it was her job to support the president in the matter.\n <\/p>\n
\n During her tenure, Chavez-DeRemer\u2019s Labor Department announced sweeping deregulatory efforts aimed at rewriting or repealing more than 60 workplace regulations it deemed obsolete. Those included proposals to eliminate a minimum wage requirement for home health care workers, remove a standard requiring lighting in active construction areas and reduce health and safety regulations in the mining industry.\n <\/p>\n
\n Chavez-DeRemer is the third Cabinet secretary to leave Trump\u2019s government in recent weeks, after he fired Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and Attorney General Pam Bondi.\n <\/p>\n
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