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He was the first president to walk a picket line. And he crowed regularly about being the “most pro-union” president ever. But after four years as president, Joe Biden could not stop a growing working-class coalition, one that increasingly includes rank-and-file union members, from flocking to Donald Trump. Reflecting on election night about the coalition that returned him to the White House, Trump called it “a historic realignment.” John McLaughlin wondered if it would endure. While Republicans celebrated in the weeks after the election, Trump’s longtime pollster looked to the future. “Right now, these Trump voters–the GOP is just renting them,” McLaughlin told RealClearPolitics. Speaking of the coalition Trump cobbled together consisting of disaffected Democrats and traditionally liberal constituencies, he added that Republicans “need to make a decision if they’re going to make them permanent.” Enter Sen. Josh Hawley, the Missouri Republican emerging as the right-of-center pro-labor leader. “Look at what Donald Trump achieved. He achieved victory based on this coalition, and he deserves tremendous credit for making it possible, and he knows it,” Hawley said in an interview before picking up where Trump’s pollster left off. Hawley is asking his Republican colleagues whether they want their new-found working-class support “to begin and end with Donald Trump.” His framework for pro-union legislation amounts to something of a downpayment. It is a set of proposals to reform the way businesses interact with organized labor, from requiring worker rights to be displayed on a job site to prohibiting “unsafe work speed quotas.” And soon Hawley will introduce legislation mandating accelerated negotiations between unions and employers. A 2022 Bloomberg Law analysis found that the average time between workers voting to unionize and reaching their first contract with employers was 465 days. The Hawley bill would mandate that once workers vote to form a union, the employer and employees must begin the negotiations process within 10 days. It is a significant reform, which unions have wanted for years. Two Democrats have already promised to co-sponsor: Sens. Cory Booker of New Jersey and Gary Peters of Michigan. But its author is unusual in that Hawley comes from a party traditionally more favorable to corporations than workers. Hawley has embraced the heterodoxy. Last year he abandoned his support for right-to-work laws, policies which bar unions from requiring workers to pay dues as a condition of employment. Before that, Hawley introduced legislation that could have easily come from the desk of socialist firebrand Bernie Sanders. One was a bill to cap credit card interest rates; another sought to overturn the Supreme Court’s campaign finance decision, Citizens United. Neither was well-received in traditional conservative precincts. The latter earned Hawley a rebuke from the business-friendly Wall Street Journal editorial page. But Hawley represents a vanguard of a New Right, and while his bill mandating accelerated negotiations between labor and business faces an uphill battle in the Senate, skepticism of corporate power is increasingly in vogue among the GOP because of Trump’s ascendancy. “As conservatives, who are now benefiting from the support of working people, it’s time we deliver for them and bring into actuality this Trump realignment, this working-class realignment of the Republican Party,” Hawley said of his efforts. “This is my project.” In this, the president is sympathetic. Trump delights in bragging about how he peeled union votes away from Democrats. He invited Teamsters president Sean O’Brien to address the Republican Convention in Milwaukee without any preconditions about what the union boss could or couldn’t say on stage. Later when the Teamsters declined to endorse him or former Vice President Kamala Harris, Trump portrayed the non-endorsement as a tacit repudiation of Democrats. Trump and Hawley have spoken in the days since the inauguration. A source familiar with those calls reports that the president is generally supportive of Hawley’s pro-labor legislation. A senior White House official did not dispute that characterization, telling RCP that “the president will never turn his back on union voters.” The administration made their commitment explicit on the campaign trail where Vice President J.D. Vance often bemoaned the “tragedy” of declining union membership in the private sector. “I think what we see as our job in national policy is to protect as many workers’ jobs as possible, to promote tax and spending and tariff policies that promote large scale economic growth and actually give workers more their take on pay and more jobs to begin with,” Vance told RCP last September before adding that the incoming administration would work to make the job of unions “easier, not harder.” This was a winning political argument. Now those voters are likely to expect results. Hawley says Republicans must embrace working class voters or, he warns, “we will never be a majority party.” “The Republican Party right now is defined largely by one very specific personality who’s been quite successful,” said Abigail Ball, executive director of the conservative think tank American Compass. “If we’re going to see this be a long-lasting realignment,” she continued, “where working class voters take seriously that conservatives want to deliver, we have to do real long-term policy work.” If Trump exits the Oval Office in four years without overseeing any such “policy work,” Hawley fears that the GOP is at risk of “reverting to the days where we are a wholly owned subsidiary of these mega corporations.” That comes with its own familiar result: a return to what Hawley calls “the political wilderness.” There is no majority coalition there, he said, warning his party, “We know this because we’ve lived it for 30 years.” An early test comes in the person of Trump’s nominee for labor secretary, Lori Chavez-DeRemer. She is a former member of Congress, a Democrat from Oregon with well-defined, pro-union views. Her support of the PRO Act, which would pre-empt state right-to-work laws, makes her anathema to pro-business Republicans. Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul promised to oppose her and predicted she could lose as many as 15 GOP votes. Democrats like Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, meanwhile, seemed pleasantly surprised and signaled a willingness to back her. “I think she’d be terrific,” Hawley said. If there is indeed a realignment, it is incomplete. Republicans are not as comfortable as Hawley on a picket line. They are more inclined to side with industry. And while Trump seems eager to keep union voters in the GOP fold, during his first time in office he sided with business. His judicial nominees, as well as his nominees to sit on the National Labor Relations Board, were undoubtedly labor skeptics. Trump even praised Elon Musk’s perceived penchant for firing Tesla workers interested in starting a union. “You’re the greatest cutter,” Trump told Musk during a live conversation on X. “I look at what you do. You walk in and say, ‘You want to quit?’ I won’t mention the name of the company, but they go on strike, and you say, ‘that’s OK. You’re all gone.’” The richest man in the world, Musk is now not just a supporter but a key member of the Trump administration. The second and third richest men in the world, Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook/Meta and Jeff Bezos of Amazon, attended Trump’s second inaugural. All three have, at one time or another, been caught up in lawsuits over their treatment of employees looking to unionize. The proximity of that much capital to the president does not worry Hawley. “There’s only one person who runs the Trump administration, and as many who think otherwise, sadly, learn, that one person is Donald J. Trump,” he replied when asked about the new coziness between Silicon Valley elite and the populist president. “So, I have no doubt that Jeff Bezos would love to be in the president’s inner circle,” he added. “Do I think that the president is going to ultimately listen to him? No.” The Missouri senator would prefer if the president listened to him and helped get his latest pro-labor legislation into law. So would the Teamsters who support the new bill. “Legislation gets put forward, oftentimes, as a political chess piece and part of the game, but the ultimate result is that it doesn’t see the light of day,” said Teamsters spokeswoman Kara Deniz. Unions have watched that dynamic play out over and over again across administrations, she said. Led by O’Brien, though, the Teamsters are increasingly open to working across the partisan divide. “The priority is to wherever we can, whether it’s Democrat, Republican, or independent, to work together with any political leader that is going to support workers,” Deniz told RCP. “Hawley has been that person,” she said. Originally published by RealClearWire The post ‘The Realignment’: GOP Sen. Hawley to Introduce Pro-Union Legislation appeared first on The Daily Signal.

CNN’s outrageously biased ongoing treatment of Elon Musk took a turn Thursday that was so over-the-top it was actually a little funny. On that day’s episode of Inside Politics, Dana Bash hosted two of Musk’s especially vitriolic detractors, and her attempts to cover for them were so ridiculous, it was actually a little more than the pair could just sit there and take. While opening up what was apparently meant to be a fairly routine session of anti-Musk deprecation, Bash introduced her two guests, Kara Swisher, host of the podcast On, and Scott Galloway, a marketing professor at NYU who also hosts his own podcast.  It was worth noting, for context, that these two were well known for their vitriolic and angry expression of their views. Swisher had, for example, promoted the idea of the Biden campaign attacking Trump with the slogan “Rapist, racist, fascist.”     Bash, though, was eager to help her guests show a kinder and gentler face, and as she introduced them, she eagerly gushed: “I just want to fact check something. Musk called you cruel and deceitful human beings. I know you both-You are neither-So- fact check: False. So, let's get that out of the way.” “Uh,” responded Swisher, apparently a little uneasy, which put Bash in a tight spot as her guests took to up ending the “fact check” she attempted on their behalf: BASH: Oh, you want to disagree with me? SWISHER: OK. All right, we're a little mean. He said we were mean and that- that's not in- inaccurate. Correct. Scott, don't you think? GALLOWAY: Uh- mean-ish. [Laughter] SWISHER: Mean-ish. “Mean, adjacent,” Bash quipped, ending the awkward moment, then hastily turned the conversation back around to Musk. Evidently, CNN has taken their notorious bias to the point where they will go so far to cover for and sugarcoat their own side, it can be a bit much even for some of those they think they’re doing a favor. To read the full transcript, click "expand": CNN Inside Politics 02/13/2025 12:40 PM BASH: What motivates the man who hopes the computers are nice to us and is actively trying to replace humans who work for the federal government with computers? Well, who better to talk to than two people plugged into Musk world for years: Kara Swisher, the host of the podcast On and co-host of Pivot and the other Pivot co-host Scott Galloway, a marketing professor at NYU and the host of another podcast, the Prof G Pod. Okay, before we start, thank you so much for being here, but I just want to fact check something. Musk -- KARA SWISHER, CNN CONTRIBUTOR: Sure. BASH: -- called you cruel and deceitful human beings. I know you both- SWISHER: Yes. BASH: You are neither- SWISHER: Yes. BASH: So- fact check: False. So, let's get that out of the way.  SWISHER: Uh- BASH: Oh, you want to disagree with me? SWISHER: OK. All right, we're a little mean. He said we were mean and that- that's not in- inaccurate. Correct. Scott, don't you think? SCOTT GALLOWAY, CO-HOST, "PIVOT": Uh- mean-ish (laughter) SWISHER: Mean-ish. BASH: Mean, adjacent. OK. But let's talk about why he called you this.

While the Biden government hired 80,000 new IRS agents to make sure you followed every one of their complicated tax laws, President Trump ordered the DOGE to audit the government — and now Democrat politicians and the media are freaking out. The reaction speaks volumes about where their true priorities lie, and Glenn Beck of “The Glenn Beck Program” is tired of it, especially following a judge’s attempt to block even Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent from accessing Treasury data. But Bessent isn’t backing down, and even recently defended the DOGE against a Bloomberg reporter, who pressed Bessent on Elon Musk. While the reporter insinuated that Elon was doing something wrong, Bessent replied that he and Elon “are completely aligned in terms of cutting waste and increasing accountability and transparency for the American people.” “I believe that this DOGE program, in my adult life, is one of the most important audits of government or changes to government structure we have seen,” Bessent said firmly. “I think that there are gigantic cost savings for the American people here, and I think it’s unfortunate the way the media wants to lampoon what is going on.” “These are highly trained professionals, you know, this is not some roving band going around doing things. This is methodical, and it is going to yield big savings,” he added. Glenn is shocked at the reporter's hostility throughout the interview. “Did you hear a nonhostile question coming from the Bloomberg reporter?” he asks. “No,” Pat Gray answers, adding, “But he handled it in a nonhostile way.” Want more from Glenn Beck?To enjoy more of Glenn’s masterful storytelling, thought-provoking analysis, and uncanny ability to make sense of the chaos, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.

Detroit city officials are pondering what policy changes to make to avoid another horrible tragedy after two children were found dead in the parking lot of a casino. The children, ages 2 and 9 years old, were found dead on Monday by their mother, Tateona Williams. The vehicle had run out of gas on a day when the temperature fell to lethal levels. 'We have to make sure that we do everything possible to make sure that this doesn't happen again.' Williams said she did everything she could to protect her children. They had been living in the van for several months. "Everybody who knows me knows that I worship the ground that those kids walked on," she said. She said that she tried to wake up her 9-year-old for school but realized that he wasn't breathing. "My son wasn't moving. I kept saying, 'Get up. Please get up. Don't do this to me,'" she told WXYZ-TV. She said she gave him CPR before rushing him to the hospital. Then they realized her 2-year-old daughter had also stopped breathing. "They brought her in right after they pronounced him dead," Williams said. "And they said she wasn't breathing. And they pronounced her dead too. I asked everybody for help. I called out of state. I called cities I didn't know."A medical examiner will determine the official cause of death. Police said there were a few blankets in the car to help the children keep warm. Three other children were living in the van. Authorities are investigating the incident and may press criminal charges against the mother. Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan commented on the tragedy. "We have to make sure that we do everything possible to make sure that this doesn't happen again," said Duggan. "I'm not trying to talk about an individual employee. I'm talking about the system as a whole. Are we doing everything to make sure people in the city know how to access this critical care?"Williams' cousin has set up a GoFundMe account to help her, and she addressed some of the criticism Williams was already getting. "So before you judge, pray for her and her strength," she wrote. "Then look in the mirror because she ain’t do nothing anyone else would not have done. She loved, protected, and did all she could to keep her babies safe … ON HER OWN!"Video from the scene can be viewed on the news report from WJBK-TV on YouTube. Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

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