PA AFL-CIO President Rick Bloomingdale Criticizes Trump’s Anti-Worker, Anti-Middle Class Cabinet Picks
Today, on a conference call with members of the press, Pennsylvania Democratic Party Chairman Marcel L. Groen called for an independent, bipartisan investigation of Russian hacking in the 2016 election:
“I call on our congressional delegation to support an independent, bipartisan commission to investigate Russia’s interference in the election, and we must follow the investigation wherever it takes us. We need to figure out exactly what happened; we need to determine what Trump knew, when he knew it and, and what the consequences were; and we need to ensure this never, ever happens again. And shame on those on the other side of the aisle who went along with this assault on our democracy. Our nation was built on the prospect of free and fair elections and we cannot allow them to be compromised.”
Seventeen United States intelligence agencies have concluded that Russia was responsible for hacking the Democratic National Committee and Hillary Clinton’s campaign – a fact that the President-Elect, his transition, and many Republican officials continue to deny.
In addition to calling for an investigation, Pennsylvania State AFL-CIO President Rick Bloomingdale criticized Trump’s cabinet picks, which fly in the face of his campaign promise to “drain the swamp.”
“It’s clear by now that Donald Trump misled voters about draining the swamp – if you look at his cabinet, he’s appointing the same Wall Street bankers, corporate CEOs, and Washington insiders that he railed against during the campaign. It’s a rude awakening for folks who thought Trump was going to actually shake up Washington,” Bloomingdale said.
Bloomingdale also blasted the fact that many of Trump’s cabinet picks will be working against the purpose of the agency they have been tapped to lead.
“What happens to the rule of law when the people appointed to enforce the law don’t believe in the laws they are supposed to enforce? We’re going to have an Education Secretary who doesn’t believe in public education and a Labor Secretary who doesn’t believe in helping American workers,” Bloomingdale said.