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If you’re the Trump Administration, here’s the good news from Acting Labor Secretary Keith Sonderling’s confirmation hearing for the permanent job:
Absent some massive calamity, I think he’s a shoo-in for Senate confirmation, likely on a party-line vote.
Here’s the less-than-good news: Sonderling, widely respected as one of the brighter and more technically minded Republican leaders in this space, continues to stake out odd territory and even seem unprepared on workforce and funding issues that swallowed a big chunk of both parties’ questioning at Thursday’s hearing.
Notably, one comment by Sonderling appeared to shift the goalposts for the Administration’s signature workforce effort: the President’s promise to swell the ranks of apprentices to at least one million. It was rather ill-timed to the Department of Labor updating its apprenticeship figures for the first time in months and sharing some bad-looking data on its progress toward the President’s goal.
And if correct, Sonderling’s comment would redirect Trump’s apprenticeship goal below a growth benchmark that the Biden Administration looks like it beat fairly handily.
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