Who Is Lori Chavez-DeRemer? Glamorous Labor Secretary Next in Line to be Fired by Trump for Affair with Her Bodyguard

Two members of President Donald Trump’s Cabinet are reportedly facing uncertainty following the firing of Attorney General Pam Bondi on Thursday. Trump has been considering firing Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, according to two White House officials who spoke with The Washington Post.

Chavez-DeRemer, a former Republican congresswoman from Oregon, has also been facing multiple allegations of having a rollicking affair with her bodyguard. Reports claim that she and the bodyguard, Brian Sloan, took a pleasure trip to Las Vegas together. DeRemer is married to Shawn DeRemer, who was reportedly banned from entering the Labor Department building after allegedly making inappropriate contact with two staff members.

In the Line of Fire

Chavez-DeRemer has denied having any affair with Sloan, who resigned two weeks ago. At the same time, DeRemer has faced other accusations, including claims that she had alcohol in her office, took staff members to a strip club, and used taxpayer money to fund personal trips back to her home state.

She has denied all of these allegations, insisting she did nothing wrong and is cooperating fully with an Inspector General investigation.

Lutnick, meanwhile, is not tied to any major controversy, but according to The Washington Post, some White House aides have grown frustrated with his outspoken communication style and his tendency to make off-the-cuff remarks that occasionally clash with the administration’s official messaging.

One of the most notable instances of Lutnick going off-script came in April 2025, when he said that Trump’s global tariff policies were “not a negotiation.”

Just hours later, Trump appeared to contradict him, saying, “The tariffs give us great power to negotiate. They always have.” Throughout his second term, Trump has leaned heavily on tariffs—and even the threat of them—to push other countries into making trade concessions in exchange for exemptions.

Lutnick has also repeatedly claimed that these tariffs would soon bring back jobs that had been outsourced overseas, even though many experts argue that such shifts usually take years to happen.

No Mercy from Trump

The 64-year-old former Wall Street executive also came under scrutiny after it emerged he had deeper ties to Jeffrey Epstein than he had previously acknowledged. When the Department of Justice released a large batch of documents from its Epstein investigation in late January, it showed that Lutnick had stayed in contact with the disgraced financier even after his 2008 conviction.

He later admitted during congressional testimony that he and his family had visited Epstein’s private Caribbean island—one of the main locations linked to Epstein’s trafficking of underage girls.

Despite all of this, reports from The Washington Post and Politico say that Trump has not yet made any final decisions regarding potential changes to his Cabinet.

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard had also been rumored to be at risk of losing her position, but Trump has publicly backed her.

Gabbard, who previously ran for president as a Democrat in 2020, has long been critical of “regime-change wars” and built much of her campaign around a non-interventionist approach.

She continues to provide intelligence briefings to Trump, even though he recently remarked that she is “a little bit different in her thought process than me” when it comes to the conflict with Iran.

Still, a White House official told The Washington Post that Gabbard is “safe” in her role for now.