Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) reportedly has severe reservations over the nomination of Julie Su, who oversaw billions in pandemic relief fraud during her time as a senior official in California, to replace Labor Secretary Marty Walsh.
Su led the California Labor Department, which oversees the state’s Employment Development Department, as one-tenth of the $114 billion in pandemic relief claims handled by the agency involved fraudulent activity. The total amount of fraud could have surpassed $31 billion, according to a January 2021 report from the San Francisco Chronicle.
Manchin recently informed the White House that he is hesitant to confirm Su, according to a report from Axios which cited multiple unnamed sources, even as the lack of support from Manchin in the narrowly Democratic Senate could sink the nomination. Hesitant Democrats also provoked the withdrawal of Gigi Sohn to serve on the Federal Communications Commission and Phil Washington to work as head of the Federal Aviation…