Andrew Puzder in Trump Cabinet members actions and issues

On Free Trade: We need to stand up to China; we'll win trade war

Puzder said that the U.S. would emerge victorious in the trade war with China. "We're definitely the party that's the strongest here. They can punish us with about $130 billion worth of what we export to China. We've got over $400 billion of what China exports to us. We're in a much stronger position."

"We need to stand up. We're the leader of the free world and we need to stand up to China," said Puzder.

Source: Fox News on Trump Cabinet May 20, 2019

On Jobs: Minimum wage hike will accelerate automation of jobs

As fast food employees push to increase the minimum wage, the former CEO of one chain warns that could be counterproductive. That is because the robots are not only coming, they're already here. Big corporations in key industries have begun replacing humans with automation in a way that negates the need to pay bigger salaries, or even improve work conditions. "The problem at the retail level is when you increase the cost of labor it accelerates the implementation of automation," said Puzder. Source: CNBC on Trump Cabinet May 20, 2019

On Abortion: Author of controversy: life begins at conception

For proposing the anti-abortion concept that life begins at conception, he earned the sobriquet "author of controversy." Missouri was a fulcrum of conservative backlash to Roe v Wade, and Puzder was the state's most prominent anti-abortion lawyer. "My goal was to switch the discussion from whether abortion was a privacy issue or a woman's rights issue to whether it is the taking of another life," Puzder told the St Louis Post-Dispatch in 1989. Source: The Guardian on Trump Cabinet Feb 16, 2017

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