Now serving as Joe Biden’s acting U.S. Secretary of Labor, Su is prepared to force U.S. taxpayers to pay off California’s loss of some $30 billion in federal COVID-relief funds.
FILE -Julie Su, Acting Labor Secretary, speaks during an impromptu appearance at the “Democracy for the People” tour, a race and democracy summit sponsored by the Congressional Black Caucus, Wednesday, July 28, 2023, in Houston. Julie Su is giving herself a gift. That news is buried in California’s 2022 annual comprehensive financial report, an otherwise obscure document filed on March 15.
When COVID struck in March 2020, Su was serving as Gov. Gavin Newsom’s labor secretary. Like most governors, but with more enthusiasm, Newsom shut down the state economy – its schools, churches, offices, stores and even parks and beaches. With the U.S. economy suddenly frozen and millions out of work, President Trump signed the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act, lending billions of dollars to backstop overwhelmed state employment offices.
“There is no sugarcoating the reality,” Su told a news conference after the collapse. “California did not have enough security measures in place.” When the electoral smoke cleared, after the tech firms declared victory, the only businesses still laboring under the burden of A.B. 5 were the hundreds of thousands too small to fight back.
The Senate’s refusal to advance Su’s nomination is fueled in part by the objections of Kevin Kiley, a freshman California congressman. While Su was Newsom’s labor secretary, Kiley was in the California assembly, representing the rural Sacramento suburb of Placer County. Would not, could not — and then did it anyhow: On March 11, Su’s U.S. Department of Labor issued a new rule that took A.B. 5 national.
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