President Donald Trump’s nominee for labor secretary, Andrew F. Puzder, withdrew his nomination Wednesday amid a growing wave of bipartisan opposition.
Puzder, a fast-food executive who opposed the Affordable Care Act and raising the minimum wage and has strongly promoted the use of automation in the workplace, has been accused by liberal groups of being aligned with interests of company owners instead of with those of workers. Conservative publications expressed anger over his employment of an undocumented immigrant as his housekeeper. A number of Senators from both sides of the aisle based their resistance to Puzder on allegations of domestic violence made by his ex-wife made during an episode of the Oprah Winfrey show.