President-elect Joe Biden maximized executive-branch muscle in naming top-level Obama administration labor officials to his transition team, giving him options for advancing his workplace agenda if Republicans maintain Senate supremacy.
His 24-member review team for labor agencies includes a dozen Obama-era senior officials, eight of whom served in the U.S. Labor Department.
They bring extensive collective experience of governing during former President Barack Obama’s second term, when opposition from congressional Republicans—especially after the GOP seized the Senate in the 2014 midterms—prompted DOL and other agencies to emphasize executive orders, regulations, enforcement, and other non-legislative steps to drive policy.
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