'Now hold up': Michael Steele stunned by GOP senators pulling support for Trump nominee

With her confirmation hearing scheduled this week, former Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer (R-OR) may see her nomination to be Donald Trump's next labor secretary go down in flames due to Republican Party resistance.

That led MSNBC's Michael Steele to express mock indignation that Republicans are actually bucking the president on a Cabinet nominee who also happens to be a Republican herself.

Referring to a report that Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) has claimed he thinks at least 15 GOP senators will not vote to confirm the nominee, Steele made a point about the hypocrisy involved in the confirmation process.

With Paul stating Chavez-DeRemer won't get his vote and telling reporters, "I’m the national spokesman and lead author of the right-to-work bill. Her support for the PRO Act, which would not only oppose national right to work but would pre-empt state law on right to work — I think it’s not a good thing," Steele reacted to "The Weekend' co-host Alicia Menedez's reporting.

After being told the nomination is in peril because "...some business lobbyists are unhappy and mystified by the pick," Steele exclaimed, "Now hold up. I'm a little bit confused this early on a Sunday morning. So you mean to tell me these Republicans are prepared to level up absolute incompetence like Tulsi Gabbard and Kash Patel and their concerned about the labor secretary that's been nominated by Donald Trump?"

"She was nominated by Trump, right?" he joked. "So they're going to lose 15 Republicans due to her union-aligned views. But wait a minute Republicans. I thought we were now pro-worker. I thought we were for the working man and woman –– you know, they're part of unions. But, you know, we know what the game is here."

"So the lady who's competent and can actually do the kind of bridge building that Republicans always bragged they are doing into the labor market, into working families" he lectured. "Y'all don't want her because of her so-called union-aligned views. I don't even know what the hell that means since she was nominated by Donald Trump."

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