Workers’ rights and freedoms are needed now more than ever. But President Biden’s labor nominee wants to regulate them away.
On January 4th, President Biden renominated David Weil to lead a key office at the Department of Labor. His nomination narrowly advanced out of the Health, Education, Labor, and Pension Committee and is now headed to the full Senate for a final vote. This is troubling, since Weil, an academic-turned-bureaucrat, is a long-time critic of free enterprise and has let these views guide his policy agenda. In fact, he’s far more inclined to engage in bureaucratic activism rather than enforce the law as written. Senators should be wary about giving him another shot.
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