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White House Reportedly Pulls Nomination Of Labor Pick Andy Puzder

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White House Reportedly Pulls Nomination Of Labor Pick Andy Puzder | The Huffington Post


The White House is expected to withdraw Andy Puzder’s nomination as labor secretary on Wednesday, according to multiple reports. He is the first of President Donald Trump’s nominees to not make it through the confirmation process.

The move came as support evaporated among Republicans for the former fast-food executive. At least seven Republican senators refused to publicly back the former chief executive of CKE Restaurants, which owns the burger chains Carl’s Jr. and Hardee’s, as criticism mounted over his hefty stack of labor violations and long-standing support for increased immigration.

After five separate delays, his confirmation hearing before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee was scheduled for Thursday.

Puzder needed support from at least 50 of the 52 Republicans in the Senate, as no Democrats or independents pledged to vote for him. The nominee could have yielded the closest vote since Vice President Mike Pence cast a historic tie-breaking vote to confirm Education Secretary Betsy DeVos earlier this month.
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faithful_servant said:
A bad choice withdrawn as it should have been and hopefully a better one will be put forth. Nice to see that we have a leader who knows when he makes a mistake and takes steps to remedy the mistake.
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How about a leader that doesn't make the mistake in the first place?
 
Hawkeye10 said:
When did God ask for the Job?
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Puzder was a terrible pick, like DeVos and Tillerson. Good to see that some senators finally stood up and showed some conscience.
 
beefheart said:
How about a leader that doesn't make the mistake in the first place?
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Dear Leader did not admit he made a mistake with Puzder, as some GOPosters are trying to say.

The GOP Senate told trump to withdraw him, period .
 
Hawkeye10 said:
Score one for vengeful ex's.
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Nope. She absolutely came forward and cut the media a new one. She said she withdrew those allegations thirty years ago, and they were false... encouraged by her divorce lawyer at the time.

her abuse allegations have returned to the headlines, Fierstein retracted those claims decades ago. “My privacy has been invaded, my family has been hurt, my children are suffering and I have become the victim of the media’s malice and determination to find ugliness where only kindness and love exists,” Fierstein said in a statement provided to Fox News.

She also wrote, in a private email sent to Puzder in late November and obtained by the Fox News Investigative Unit, that he was “not abusive” and she had been “counseled” at the time to make the allegations.

“I regretted and still regret that decision and I withdrew those allegations over thirty years ago,” she wrote.*“You were not abusive.*I will most definitely confirm to anyone who may ask that in no way was there abuse
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This was copied from the Fox News app. It won't let me grab a link.
 
beefheart said:
Puzder was a terrible pick, like DeVos and Tillerson. Good to see that some senators finally stood up and showed some conscience.
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And you were fine with Lynch, Holder, Hillary, Rahm, etc, and that mess we saw from the IRS?
 
beefheart said:
Puzder was a terrible pick, like DeVos and Tillerson. Good to see that some senators finally stood up and showed some conscience.
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The GOP Senate had no choice when faced with Puzder's past.

Today, you can tell trump is still smarting over Flynn by his calling out the 'fake media' at a news conference in front of a world leader where trump is now childishly censoring the 'fake media' .
 
faithful_servant said:
A bad choice withdrawn as it should have been and hopefully a better one will be put forth. Nice to see that we have a leader who knows when he makes a mistake and takes steps to remedy the mistake.
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I think you are going to be pleased repeatedly by this President... First 'firing' Flynn and now withdrawing a candidate that probably shouldn't have been in the conversation (vetting has a purpose)

But Trump likes to shoot fast and loose, hitting the bull's eye is not all that important... :peace
 
beefheart said:
Puzder was a terrible pick, like DeVos and Tillerson. Good to see that some senators finally stood up and showed some conscience.
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It isn't "conscience," they're following orders from labor unions that fund them and pull their strings. Alaska is the 2nd most unionized state in the country, and Murkowski is one of the Senators in the pockets of our unions. Trump has basically turned Murkowski into a Democrat.

By putting such controversial and divisive decisions in front of GOP Congresspeople, Trump is revealing the true colors of a lot of them.
 
Erod said:
And you were fine with Lynch, Holder, Hillary, Rahm, etc, and that mess we saw from the IRS?
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The current year is 2017 and the current president, trump BROS, is an abject disaster.

Are you trying to become one of the top trumpistani deflectors on DP ?
 
NIMBY said:
The GOP Senate had no choice when faced with Puzder's past.

Today, you can tell trump is still smarting over Flynn by his calling out the 'fake media' at a news conference in front of a world leader where trump is now childishly censoring the 'fake media' .
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He wouldn't take any questions about Flynn....what a *****.
 
Neomalthusian said:
It isn't "conscience," they're following orders from labor unions that fund them and pull their strings. Alaska is the 2nd most unionized state in the country, and Murkowski is one of the Senators in the pockets of our unions. Trump has basically turned Murkowski into a Democrat.

By putting such controversial and divisive decisions in front of GOP Congresspeople, Trump is revealing the true colors of a lot of them.
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Who were the other GOP Senators who forced this withdrawal, since Murkowski is only one Senator?

How many times has Murkowski bucked her party, besides DeVos, since you claim she is now a Democrat ?
 
beefheart said:
He wouldn't take any questions about Flynn....what a *****.
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The Bannon/Miller duo are no doubt happy with trump's censorship of REAL NEWS questions at his pressers .
 
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