Trump Labor Secretary Reveals Warning She Gave To 'All 50 Governors' Over Illegal Immigrants

At a Cabinet meeting on Wednesday, Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer spoke about her accomplishments during the first 100 days.

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00:00okay let's go nice to see you mr. president and well first of all I think what you've heard

00:05amongst this team is the leadership because it's given us the latitude really to collaborate

00:10amongst each other not only in this room as Jameson mentioned we kind of get a break for

00:16a couple of hours here but we stay in contact actually every other day that that we're working

00:20for you and I think what that says is I was speaking to for instance the Farm Bureau of

00:25Texas yesterday I'm not the AG secretary but it matters to the workforce I'm working with the

00:31other secretaries let Nick and McMahon on education in the workforce investments that you've asked me

00:36to do because as you've come in and negotiated these great repatriation of these companies and

00:40the investments we're going to need that workforce to build back this economy and and I couldn't see

00:45that more as I kicked off my 50 state tour we've been in five states so far we'll finish all 50

00:50states by the end of the year and what we're talking to is the American workforce and these

00:55companies about what the market demand is that's the difference that we finally have made that

01:00connection what do they need how quick do they need it and how fast can I get these either

01:04apprenticeships toward that million that we've put that lofty goal we've already added 80,000 new

01:09apprenticeships already just since January so at the Department of Labor that tour has kicked off

01:15and I couldn't be more honored to be on the ground and see my colleagues that we're passing in the skies

01:19but we're on the ground together because we're all collaborating together one of the things that we're talking

01:25about illegal immigration I have put states on notice I warned all 50 governors that if they

01:30continue to reward illegal immigration by treating unemployment benefits as a handout they're going

01:36to lose their federal funding as well we can no longer continue to give unemployment insurance

01:41to illegal immigrants and so I've let those governors and I sent out that letter last week

01:46we also eliminated discriminatory discriminatory DEI offices within the department specifically the

01:52office of federal contract compliance programs most of our federal contracts were really just to

01:58focus on DEI enforcement we were really punishing a lot of these companies if they weren't complying

02:02they weren't going to have a federal content we've we've let go of that program completely

02:064.4 billion dollars in unspent COVID funds came back to the Treasury from the cares Act and billions

02:14were collecting dust in these coffers in the state coffers we've asked for that money back to return to the

02:18Department of Treasury we saved 250 million by canceling America last is what I call it foreign handouts

02:25including funding for things like transparency and accountability for Uzbekistan cotton industry it

02:30doesn't make sense that we're funding you know these foreign and thank you to doge and to the government

02:37efficiency of what we have found with the fraud that we're seeing it's

02:40it sounds like a comedy sketch and so again with the executive order preparing Americans for high

02:53paying skilled trade jobs of the future that's our goal the trades is where we're being focused but

02:58all companies and we want to make sure we're on hand for that and you know what I want to say is thank

03:05you to government efficiency because you asked us when this transitions out will our departments and

03:11our agencies continue that government efficiency and I think that we surpass that in the Department

03:16of Labor out of our 14,000 federal employees 3,000 have taken the DRP and we offered it again so

03:23over 21% have taken that offer and and we'll keep our critical workforce and show ocean wage an hour and

03:29make sure our workers stay safe so with your leadership Mr. President I couldn't be more honored to serve I

03:34know we were probably the last to know each other but we're getting to know each other well and and

03:39the team that you have assembled is really an honor to serve with so thank you Mr. President

03:43you're doing great thank you very much