Chavez-DeRemer accepted more than $1.78 million in campaign contributions from industries that fall under the umbrella of Labor Department oversight, including real estate interests and homebuilders, the automotive industry and crop producers and processors.

In a 2017 op-ed, Chavez-DeRemer blamed Medicaid expansion and pension funding as reason for Oregon’s budget deficit, wrote that the pension system “has a contract to be honored, but we might need to work together to redefine ‘honored’”