President Joe Biden nominated Julie Su as the next Secretary of the Department of Labor on February 28, 2023. Su has served as a Deputy Secretary in the U.S. Labor Department since July 17, 2021. It is a highly troubling nomination, given Su’s poor track record as a top administrator.
Su earned her negative reputation while serving as California’s Labor Secretary, serving in that role from January 11, 2019, until July 14, 2021. Su allowed $11 billion in COVID unemployment benefits to be paid out to fraudsters in 2020, including $1 billion to inmates of California’s state prisons.
That, by itself, is not what makes Su’s nomination so troubling. What is worrisome
