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From The New York Times: The White House Will Be Shedding Its Union Label
After gains by organized labor under President Biden, a second Trump administration is likely to change course on regulation and enforcement.
By NOAM SHEIBER
Joseph R. Biden Jr. promised to be the most pro-labor president in history. He embraced unions more overtly than his predecessors in either party, and filled his administration with union supporters.
Labor seemed to respond accordingly. Filings for unionization elections spiked to their highest level in a decade, as did union victories. There were breakthroughs at companies like Starbucks and Amazon, and unions prevailed in organizing a major foreign auto plant in the South. A United Automobile Workers walkout yielded substantial contract gains — and images of Mr. Biden joining a picket line.
As Donald J. Trump prepares to retake the White House, labor experts expect the legal landscape for labor to turn sharply in another direction.
From The Daily Beast: White Nationalist and Ex-Trump Aide Stephen Miller to Make White House Return
By MINI RACKER
Donald Trump is set to announce top immigration adviser Stephen Miller as his new White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy.
Miller will return with more influence than he had in the first Trump administration, where he served as a senior adviser for policy, two sources familiar with the matter told CNN.
Miller developed a reputation as an immigration hard-liner who promoted white nationalist ideas. He was a key architect behind the family separation policy at the border, continuing to defend the practice even after it received backlash.
From Daily Kos:Trump Voters Will Soon Have Buyer’s Remorse
By NebraskaDemocrat
I was listening to National Public Radio recently and several of their commentators breathlessly claimed that Don Old Trump had won a “mandate.” Similarly, The Hill website made several references to Trump’s alleged “decisive” victory. That is simply absurd and we need to push back hard against that false narrative .
The reality is that Trump is headed to what looks like a 1.5% point victory in the popular vote. In contrast, Biden won the popular vote by a 51% to 47% margin in 2020. Trump’s margin of victory is smaller than both of Barack Obama’s wins, Bush’s narrow win in 2004 and Bill Clinton’s big wins in 1992 and 1996. It is even smaller than Hillary Clinton’s 48% to 46% margin in 2016.