Overview
- The White House said Monday that Lori Chavez-DeRemer will leave for a private-sector job, and Deputy Secretary Keith Sonderling will lead the Labor Department in an acting role.
- Her exit comes during an inspector general investigation into alleged misuse of taxpayer-funded travel and other workplace conduct, which remains active, and her lawyer says she disputes the claims.
- Investigators have reviewed texts and staff accounts that describe requests for wine during work trips, a possible relationship with a security staffer, and efforts to turn personal travel into official business.
- Several senior aides have left in recent weeks, and her husband was barred from department headquarters after staff complaints that police and prosecutors later closed without charges.
- This is the third recent Cabinet departure in President Trump’s second term, and oversight by the inspector general and Congress now shifts to the department’s leadership and operations under Sonderling.