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Ohio Sen. Rob Portman isn't ready to say he's supporting fast food executive Andrew Puzder as President Donald Trump's secretary of labor. A spokesman for Portman confirms he is one of at least six GOP senators who are waiting to hear Puzder answer questions Thursday at his confirmation hearing.
Rattled by bitter fights over President Donald Trump's Cabinet picks, Republicans and their allies have launched a fresh campaign to defend fast food executive Andrew Puzder's nomination to lead the Labor Department. From a social media push, including the Twitter hashtag #confirmpuzder, to old-fashioned letter-writing to senators, the CEO's supporters are pushing back against months of Democratic and labor-led efforts to cast him as favoring business interests over those of U.S. workers.
The New York Democrat told reporters on Thursday that Puzder's record as CEO of fast food empire CKE Restaurants, Inc. disqualifies him from advocating for workers as the head of the Labor Department. Senate Democrats on Thursday unveiled another former employee of Puzder's company who says she was mistreated.
President Donald Trump's nominee for secretary of labor has proposed avoiding conflicts of interest by resigning as CEO of his fast food empire, selling off hundreds of holdings and recusing himself from government decisions in which he has a financial interest, according to his ethics filings with the government. "I will not participate personally and substantially in any particular matter in which I know that I have a financial interest directly and predictably affected by the matter" without a waiver from government ethics officials, Andrew Puzder wrote in the nine-page filing, dated Tuesday and obtained by The Associated Press.
Andrew Puzder, President Trump's nominee to lead the Labor Department, says he will step down as chief executive of CKE Restaurants and might give up his 2016 bonus if the Senate confirms his nomination. The fast food exec, who currently runs Carl's Jr. and Hardee's restaurants, explained how he would avoid financial conflicts of interest in a letter to government ethics officials.
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President Donald Trump's pick for labor secretary outsourced his fast-food company's technology department to the Philippines, a move that contradicts Trump's vow to keep American jobs in the U.S. Trump has blasted, threatened and tried to charm American companies that have so much as contemplated moving jobs overseas, saying he's sticking up for American workers who aren't feeling the economic recovery and form his political base. But a filing with the Labor Department on CEO Andrew Puzder's company - and a spokesman's acknowledgement that CKE continues to use the IT operation in the Philippines - provides a window into a key contradiction raised by the nomination.
In this Nov. 19, 2016 file photo, President-elect Donald Trump walks with CKE Restaurants CEO Andy Puzder from Trump National Golf Club Bedminster clubhouse in Bedminster, N.J. Trump is expected to add another wealthy business person and elite donor to his Cabinet, with fast food executive Andrew Puzder as Labor secretary. In the background is Vice President-elect Mike Pence.
President-elect Donald Trump is taking on a somber task Thursday that became all too familiar to his predecessor - supporting survivors after an outbreak of violence, this time families and victims from last week's attack at Ohio State University. Trump is flying to Columbus, Ohio, to meet with several people who were slashed by Ohio State student Abdul Razak Ali Artan.
President-elect Donald Trump is expected to add another wealthy business person and elite donor to his Cabinet, with fast-food executive Andrew Puzder as labour secretary. Puzder heads CKE Restaurants Holdings, the parent company of Carl's Jr., Hardee's and other chains.