Fast food CEO Andy Puzder’s confirmation hearing as labor secretary has reportedly hit a fifth delay, and all this delay is starting to sound like a death knell for his confirmation chances. In short:
It can’t help that Puzder once employed an undocumented housekeeper, though Ryan Grim reports that:
Trump transition officials told Puzder that the previous rules for vetting and strict ethics no longer applied. “The view in the transition was that’s the old model,” said one GOP official involved with Puzder’s nomination.
Big talk, but so far Republicans don’t appear to be eager to put that to the test of a Senate confirmation hearing.