2026-04-20T21:18:39.414Z / 美国有线电视新闻网（CNN）
作者：亚历杭德拉·哈拉米略、艾丽西亚·华莱士
更新于6分钟前
更新时间：2026年4月20日，美国东部时间晚上8:07
发布时间：2026年4月20日，美国东部时间下午5:18
2025年5月15日，劳工部长洛里·查韦斯-德雷默在众议院拨款小组委员会作证。
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劳工部长洛里·查韦斯-德雷默将辞去特朗普政府职务，前往私营部门任职，此前该部门正对其可能存在的不当行为展开内部调查。
“劳工部长洛里·查韦斯-德雷默将离开本届政府，前往私营部门任职，”白宫通讯主任史蒂文·张在一份声明中表示。“她在任期间表现出色，保护了美国工人的权益，推行了公平的劳工政策，并帮助美国人掌握更多技能以改善生活。”
史蒂文·张补充称，基思·松德林将担任代理劳工部长。
CNN已向白宫寻求更多细节，包括查韦斯-德雷默的离职生效时间。
查韦斯-德雷默在X平台的一份声明中写道，“能在这个具有历史意义的政府中任职，为我一生中最伟大的总统工作，是我的荣誉和荣幸。”
“我为我们在推进特朗普总统弥合劳资双方鸿沟、始终将美国工人放在首位的使命方面取得的重大进展感到自豪，”她写道。
松德林在声明发布后在X平台上表示：“感谢特朗普总统给我机会担任代理劳工部长。我们将继续努力，始终将美国工人放在首位。”
查韦斯-德雷默的短暂任期充满动荡，她因该部门内部对其行为的投诉而受到内部调查。《纽约时报》此前曾报道，她的丈夫因性侵指控被禁止进入劳工部总部。针对此事的刑事调查已结案。
今年3月，她的两名高级助手在对该机构不当行为的调查中被解雇。
据一位了解情况的劳工部消息人士透露，几个月来，劳工部监察长办公室一直在调查一项投诉，称查韦斯-德雷默与她的一名安保人员存在性关系，此外还有其他不当行为指控，例如派员工去买酒，以及试图用公务旅行作为个人出行的借口。
该消息人士称，例如，查韦斯-德雷默曾表示想去参加芝加哥的终极格斗冠军赛（UFC）、摩根·沃伦的演唱会，以及去多个州探望亲友，并要求员工安排工作行程，以便她有机会参加这些活动。
据该消息人士透露，作为调查的一部分，查韦斯-德雷默与她的亲密家人以及该部门员工之间的私人性质短信已被移交给监察长。这些短信包括查韦斯-德雷默的丈夫与至少一名年轻员工之间的交流，他在交流中要求及时了解她的行踪。
查韦斯-德雷默的律师尼克·奥伯海德在她的新职位公布前对CNN表示：“洛里·查韦斯-德雷默部长一直是美国工人的热心倡导者。她以任务为导向，对特朗普总统无比忠诚，不会对针对她的偏见和荒谬指控置评。”
查韦斯-德雷默于2025年3月宣誓就任劳工部长，当时特朗普政府通过政府效率部寻求削减联邦资金、削减项目，并通过裁员数十万个职位大幅缩减联邦雇员规模。
美国人事管理办公室的数据显示，截至今年2月，劳工部的雇员人数比2024年9月减少了近25%。
特别是劳工统计局的人员裁减引发了政策制定者、经济学家、学者、研究人员等人的担忧，他们发出警告称，现有的资金和人员配备不足以将这个“黄金标准”的数据体系升级并强化。在特朗普解雇劳工统计局局长埃丽卡·麦肯塔弗尔之后，该机构还遭遇了严重动荡——此前该机构发布的就业报告包含了大幅修正数据。
在麦肯塔弗尔被解雇后的几天里，查韦斯-德雷默对福克斯商业频道表示，支持总统的决定是她的职责。
在她的任期内，查韦斯-德雷默领导的劳工部宣布了全面的放松管制举措，旨在改写或废除超过60项她认为过时的职场监管规定。其中包括取消家庭护理工人的最低工资要求、取消活跃建筑区域的照明标准，以及放宽采矿业的健康和安全规定。
在最近几周内，特朗普先后解雇了国土安全部部长克里斯蒂·诺姆和司法部长帕姆·邦迪，查韦斯-德雷默是第三位离开特朗普政府的内阁成员。
本文已更新补充更多细节。
CNN的勒内·马什和卡尼塔·艾耶尔对本文亦有贡献。
Lori Chavez-DeRemer out as Labor secretary
2026-04-20T21:18:39.414Z / CNN
By Alejandra Jaramillo, Alicia Wallace
Updated 6 min ago
Updated Apr 20, 2026, 8:07 PM ET
PUBLISHED Apr 20, 2026, 5:18 PM ET
Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer testifies before a House Appropriations subcommittee on on May 15, 2025.
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Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer is stepping down from the Trump administration to take a job in the private sector amid an internal investigation into possible misconduct.
“Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer will be leaving the Administration to take a position in the private sector,” White House communications director Steven Cheung announced in a statement. “She has done a phenomenal job in her role by protecting American workers, enacting fair labor practices, and helping Americans gain additional skills to improve their lives.”
Keith Sonderling will serve as acting secretary of the Department of Labor, Cheung added.
CNN has asked the White House for more details, including when Chavez-DeRemer’s departure will take effect.
In a statement on X, Chavez-DeRemer wrote that it had “been an honor and a privilege to serve in this historic Administration and work for the greatest President of my lifetime.”
“I am proud that we made significant progress in advancing President Trump’s mission to bridge the gap between business and labor and always put the American worker first,” she wrote.
Sonderling wrote on X after the announcement, “Thank you to President Trump for the opportunity to serve as Acting Secretary of Labor. We will keep up the fight to put American workers first.”
Chavez-DeRemer’s brief tenure has been one marked by turmoil as she’s come under internal investigation following complaints within the department about her conduct. The New York Times previously reported that her husband had been banned from the department’s headquarters amid sexual assault allegations. A criminal investigation into that matter has been closed.
In March, two of her top aides were forced out amid an investigation into misconduct at the agency.
For months, the Labor Department’s Inspector General’s Office has been investigating a complaint that Chavez-DeRemer was having a sexual relationship with a member of her security team, as well as other allegations of inappropriate behavior, such as sending staff to pick up liquor and attempting to use business trips as excuses for personal travel, according to a Department of Labor source with knowledge of the situation.
For example, Chavez-DeRemer had expressed a desire to go to events such as a UFC fight in Chicago, a Morgan Wallen concert and to see friends and family in various states, and asked staff to design work trips that would provide her openings to attend those events, the source said.
As part of the investigation, text messages between Chavez-DeRemer, her close family members and staff members at the department that were personal in nature were turned over to the inspector general, according to the source. The messages included exchanges between Chavez-DeRemer’s husband and at least one young staff member, in which he asked to be kept abreast of her whereabouts.
Chavez-DeRemer’s lawyer, Nick Oberheiden, said in a statement to CNN before her new job was announced, “Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer has made a name for herself as a zealous advocate for American workers. Mission-focused and committed to President Trump with utmost loyalty, Secretary Chavez-DeRemer will not comment on biased and absurd allegations against her.”
Chavez-DeRemer was sworn in as secretary of labor in March 2025, a time when the Trump administration, via the Department of Government Efficiency, sought to slash federal funding, cut programs and drastically reduce the federal workforce by cutting hundreds of thousands of jobs.
As of February, the Labor Department’s workforce was nearly 25% smaller than it was in September 2024, US Office of Personnel Management data shows.
Reductions in staffing at the Bureau of Labor Statistics, in particular, stoked concern from policymakers, economists, academics, researchers and others, who sounded the alarm that existing funding and staffing were not adequate to make the “gold-standard” data more modernized and robust. And the agency faced acute upheaval when Trump fired Commissioner Erika McEntarfer following a jobs report that contained large revisions.
In the days following McEntarfer’s firing, Chavez-DeRemer told Fox Business that it was her job to support the president in the matter.
During her tenure, Chavez-DeRemer’s Labor Department announced sweeping deregulatory efforts aimed at rewriting or repealing more than 60 workplace regulations it deemed obsolete. Those included proposals to eliminate a minimum wage requirement for home health care workers, remove a standard requiring lighting in active construction areas and reduce health and safety regulations in the mining industry.
Chavez-DeRemer is the third Cabinet secretary to leave Trump’s government in recent weeks, after he fired Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and Attorney General Pam Bondi.
This story has been updated with additional details.
CNN’s Rene Marsh and Kaanita Iyer contributed to this report.
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