The New Yorker:
A series of legal challenges could radically disempower the National Labor Relations Board—and other administrative agencies—regardless of who controls Congress or the White House.
By E. Tammy Kim
Donald Trump wore cufflinks and a tie—but no hairnet, or company visor, or rubber-soled shoes—while scooping fries into red cardboard containers last week, at a McDonald’s outside Philadelphia. He was guided through the motions of the fry station by a reedy, goateed young man, an actual employee, who had been caught up in the candidate’s maudlin cosplay of worker solidarity. The scene was designed to troll Kamala Harris, whose summertime stint at a McDonald’s during college is fake news, according to Trump. “I’ve now worked for fifteen minutes more than Kamala at McDonald’s,” he said. Within hours, he was selling commemorative T-shirts with a picture of him smiling at the drive-through window above the phrase “MAGADonald’s,” a cartoony wave of platinum-colored hair over the “D.”
Trump has long been a fan of fast food. In 2019, he served a buffet of boxed McNuggets and Filet-o-Fish, stacked on silver platters, to the Clemson University football team, when its members visited the White House after winning the N.C.A.A. championship. But his affection for the food does not extend to the people who prepare it. That year, one of his political appointees, Peter Robb, the general counsel of the National Labor Relations Board, brokered a deal with McDonald’s that let it off the hook for alleged labor violations taking place at its franchises.
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