2026-09-04T15:04:40.198Z / 美国有线电视新闻网（CNN）
作者：卡安妮塔·艾尔（Kaanita Iyer）
56分钟前
发布于 2026年9月4日美国东部时间上午11:04
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美国劳工部独立调查发现，前劳工部长洛里·查韦斯-德雷默（Lori Chavez-DeRemer）违反部门规定，在办公室饮酒，并指使下属为其处理私人事务。
美国劳工部监察长办公室周四发布的这份措辞严厉的报告还显示，查韦斯-德雷默未按规定申报就接受了贵重礼品，将私人行程与公务行程混为一谈，并且与她安保团队中的一名上级官员存在“不当亲密关系”。
包括她的办公厅主任在内的部分下属也被查出行为不当。
美国有线电视新闻网（CNN）已联系查韦斯-德雷默的律师置评。美国劳工部发言人表示，该机构“尊重监察长调查的公正性”。
查韦斯-德雷默于今年早些时候离开劳工部，加入私营部门就职。这份报告揭开了这位前部长任期短暂且充满动荡的任期内幕。
在她任职期间，作为政府重塑联邦 workforce 计划的一部分，该部门员工规模大幅缩减。据《纽约时报》报道，她的丈夫肖恩·德雷默（Shawn DeRemer）还曾面临性侵指控，并被禁止进入该部门总部。针对肖恩·德雷默的刑事调查已结案。
根据报告，有一次查韦斯-德雷默指示一名助理使用部门车辆前往她家“帮她晾晒衣物、干洗衣物，并整理她的衣服、鞋子和手袋”。监察长的报告还显示，她还指使下属为其购买酒类和其他私人用品，包括在一次公务出差期间“让一名助理在她入住的酒店为她购买葡萄酒”。
监察长表示，根据对证人证词和部门记录的审查，查韦斯-德雷默未如实申报的礼品包括一名说客赠送的牛仔竞技表演门票、在路易斯安那州斯普林菲尔德之行中收到的短吻鳄皮钱包，以及在佛罗里达州棕榈滩举行的“美国优先政策研究所”活动上收到的两顶牛仔帽。
调查人员对2025年11月的棕榈滩之行进行了详细审查，此次行程是为了参加在总统唐纳德·特朗普的海湖庄园举行的保守派晚宴。报告显示，她“在一家豪华酒店及水疗中心入住了三晚，每晚房价不含税达529美元”。报告称，她为此次行程报销了超过2000美元，远超联邦报销标准。
监察长办公室发现，查韦斯-德雷默存在“将公务与私人行程混为一谈的重复模式”，例如在计划前往俄勒冈州波特兰市私人度假期间，将对当地移民海关执法局设施的官方访问纳入行程。
报告称：“调查证实，官方旅行权限多次被用于同时满足私人利益的出行需求。”总体而言，“调查结论认为，查韦斯-德雷默的行为不符合相关行为标准”。
在出任劳工部长之前，查韦斯-德雷默于2022年当选代表俄勒冈州第五国会选区的联邦众议员。她仅任职一届，便在2024年的连任竞选中失利。
在众议院的短暂任期内，查韦斯-德雷默树立了华盛顿地区最支持劳工权益的共和党人之一的形象。她是少数几位共同支持一项旨在降低工会组建难度法案的共和党议员之一。
查韦斯-德雷默离开劳工部后，基思·松德林（Keith Sonderling）被任命为代理部长。
Former labor secretary drank at the office and misused resources, probe finds
2026-09-04T15:04:40.198Z / CNN
By Kaanita Iyer
56 min ago
PUBLISHED Sep 4, 2026, 11:04 AM ET
Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer testifies before the a House committee in the Rayburn House Office Building in May 2025.
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Former Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer violated department policy by drinking alcohol at the office and telling her staff to perform personal tasks for her, an independent Labor Department investigation found.
The scathing report published Thursday by the department’s Office of Inspector General also found that Chavez-DeRemer accepted expensive gifts without proper notification, combined personal and official travel and had an “inappropriately close” relationship with a supervisor in her security detail.
Some of her staffers, including her chief of staff, were also found to have behaved improperly.
CNN has reached out to Chavez-DeRemer’s lawyer for comment. A spokesperson for the Department of Labor said the agency “respects the integrity of the Inspector General’s investigation.”
Chavez-DeRemer departed the Labor Department earlier this year for a job in the private sector. The report sheds light on the former secretary’s brief tenure, which was marked by turmoil.
Under her leadership, the department saw a major reduction in staff as part of the administration’s reshaping of the federal workforce. Her husband, Shawn DeRemer, also faced sexual assault allegations and was reportedly banned from the agency’s headquarters, according to the New York times. A criminal investigation into Shawn DeRemer’s matter has been closed.
In one instance, according to the report, Chavez-DeRemer instructed an aide to use a department vehicle to go to her house to “to hang her laundry and dry cleaning and organize her clothing, shoes, and purses.” She also directed staff to buy alcohol and other personal items for her, including asking an aide during a work trip “to purchase wine for her at her hotel,” the inspector general report found.
The gifts Chavez-DeRemer did not properly disclose include tickets to a rodeo from a lobbyist, an alligator-hide wallet gifted during a trip to Springfield, Louisiana and two cowboy hats gifted during an America First Policy Institute event in Palm Beach, Florida, the inspector general said, based on a review of testimony from witnesses and department records.
Investigators scrutinized the November 2025 trip to Palm Beach, which was for a conservative gala held at President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate, with the report revealing that she “stayed three nights at a luxury hotel and spa with a nightly rate of $529, excluding taxes.” She was reimbursed over $2,000 for the trip, which greatly exceeded the federal reimbursement rate, according to the report.
The OIG found a “repeated pattern” of Chavez-DeRemer combining personal and business travel, like adding an official visit to an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Portland to her schedule, despite planning to go to the city, where she has a house, for personal reasons.
The investigation “established that official travel authorities were used on multiple occasions to support travel that also served personal interests,” the report says. Overall, it “concluded that Chavez-DeRemer’s conduct was inconsistent with applicable standards.”
Before serving as Labor secretary, Chavez-DeRemer was elected in 2022 to represent Oregon’s 5th Congressional District in Congress. She only served for one term as she lost her reelection bid in 2024.
During her short tenure in the House, Chavez-DeRemer established herself as one of the most labor-friendly Republicans in Washington. She was one of the few GOP co-sponsors of a bill that would make it easier for workers to unionize.
After Chavez-DeRemer’s departure from the Labor Department, Keith Sonderling was appointed as acting secretary.
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