Scott Mugno, the former FedEx official poised to win Senate confirmation to run the Labor Department’s safety and health agency, has informed the White House he no longer wants to join the administration, sources briefed on the matter told Bloomberg Law.
Mugno wrote to the White House and Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta May 14 to say he was pulling out of the process. Acosta, who has already seen six of his high-level political appointees depart since the start of 2019, was initially attempting to salvage Mugno’s nomination to run the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, one source familiar with the ...
