President Joe Biden called for the Senate on March 1 to quickly confirm Julie Su as the next Secretary of Labor.
The president’s comments came during a White House ceremony where he officially announced her nomination to replace Marty Welsh in the position.
With Su serving as labor secretary, Biden said during his introduction he would be better able to uphold his promise to “be the most pro-union president in presidential history.”
“The reason I ran was to rebuild the backbone of this nation, the middle class, and grow the economy from the bottom up and the middle out, not from the top down,” he said….