Lori Chavez-DeRemer on Rescinding DEI Practices and Boosting American Workforce

Rebuilding the American Workforce

• 🎯 The Department of Labor, under this administration, has focused on making the American dream a reality for the American workforce, creating over 2 million jobs for native-born workers.
• 🚀 Initiatives like 'Make America Skilled Again' and an intentional apprenticeship program aim to train workers for trades crucial to onshoring and reshoring efforts.
• 🛠️ There's a significant need for skilled tradespeople, with 700,000 new jobs projected for electricians, construction workers, and machinists.

AI Infrastructure and Business Support

• 💡 The department is investing $86 million in AI infrastructure and jobs to ensure the workforce is proficient and literate in AI, aiming to maintain leadership in the AI race.
• 🤝 The Department of Labor is acting as an ally to businesses, contrasting with the previous administration's adversarial approach.
• 📈 Efforts are underway to lower healthcare costs through expanded transparency and make pricing more affordable for employers.

Promoting Retirement Security and Worker Protection

• 💰 Guidance restricting crypto in retirement investments has been rescinded, alongside a supplemental statement discouraging fiduciaries from considering alternative assets for 401ks.
• 🚫 Over 200 investigations have been launched into companies abusing or fraudulently misusing cheap foreign labor at the expense of American workers.
• ✅ Discriminatory DEI practices have been rescinded, saving American businesses nearly $1 billion in compliance costs.

Mission for the Future

• ✨ The core mission is to continue skilling the American workforce faster and more efficiently to help Americans realize the American dream.
• 👏 There is a deep honor in serving this administration and speaking to American workers who believe in the American dream and take pride in their skilled labor.