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Labor Secretary Chavez-DeRemer Brings America at Work Listening Tour to Lansing, Michigan

July 5, 2025 · USDepartmentofLabor · 0:02:44

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What happened

Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer brought the Department of Labor’s America at Work listening tour to Lansing, Michigan, according to the Department of Labor’s upload of the local news report on the visit. The report said the secretary had toured 20 states since April, gathering feedback from workers and businesses on federal policies and regulations, and that she joined community members, workers and Congressman Tom Barrett at Schaefer, a family-owned concrete plant.

Chavez-DeRemer said she wanted workers to know the Department of Labor is their ally, not their adversary, and would do everything it could to assist them. She said the administration looks to remove barriers to business, grow the economy and expand workforce opportunity, and she cited no tax on overtime, no tax on tips and no tax on Social Security as provisions that matter to the American people, asking workers what the department could do for them.

The secretary said that if the administration’s legislative package passed, it would unlock trillions in investment, build a stronger workforce and help young workers find mortgage-paying jobs that provide for their families, growing the economy in local communities, as she described it.

Why it matters

The Lansing stop shows the Labor Department selling its legislative agenda directly to employers and workers on a multi-state tour, with the tax provisions for tips, overtime and Social Security as its headline household promises.

Sources: USDepartmentofLabor, “Secretary Chavez-DeRemer Visits Lansing, Michigan”, 2025-07-05 (official upload, embedded above; published 2025-07-05). Transcript via Supadata (private research store, paraphrased and attributed, not republished). All figures and characterizations as stated by the speakers.