Labor Secretary Chavez-DeRemer Reports from Her 50-State Worker Tour at General Dynamics

Name: "Labor Secretary Chavez-DeRemer Reports from Her 50-State Worker Tour at General Dynamics"
Uploaded: 2025-09-02
Duration: 1 min 48 s
Description: "Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer says her tour has covered 32 states and will complete all 50, describing uplifted trades, 55,000 apprentices and trainees at the Portsmouth Navy shipyard program, and strong business and worker confidence, according to the Labor Department upload."

September 2, 2025 · USDepartmentofLabor · 0:01:48

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What happened

Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer — who is not among the officials tracked by name on this site, so this page is tagged with no tracked official — described her nationwide listening tour in an interview uploaded by the Department of Labor. She said the tour had covered 32 states and would finish the 50-state tour by the end of that day, that it kicked off in April, and that the President wanted his secretaries on the ground, which she said she told her team when she took office, as she stated it.

Speaking from General Dynamics, where she said workers are building submarines, Chavez-DeRemer said the trades are being uplifted and described the skills being produced there; she also cited the Portsmouth Navy shipyard, where she said 55,000 apprentices and trainees will go through the program, and visits in Boston to a laser, taser and body-camera company where engineers are needed as well, as she stated the figures. She said the country is seeing advanced manufacturing and high-tech investment because the President said to bring the dollars back to this country, according to her remarks.

She described the consumer confidence of business owners and workers as amazing and recounted speaking minutes earlier with a worker who in five years will be a painter on submarines and who spoke about what that does for her family, as she stated it. She credited the President and Congress — citing the one big beautiful bill — and said the administration wants the economy growing, according to her remarks.

Why it matters

The interview is the Labor secretary’s own mid-tour account of the administration’s workforce pitch — trades uplifted alongside engineers — delivered from the submarine-building workforce she was visiting, with the 50-state tour itself as the stated listening mechanism.

Sources: USDepartmentofLabor, “Secretary Chavez-DeRemer is Getting Outside of DC to Talk Directly With the American Worker!”, 2025-09-02 (official upload, embedded above; published 2025-09-02). Transcript via Supadata (private research store, paraphrased and attributed, not republished). All figures and characterizations as stated by the speakers.