A former aide to former U.S. Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer, President Donald Trump’s nominee for labor secretary, “bypassed” a security screening Tuesday at a congressional office building, U.S. Capitol Police said.
“At approximately 4:08 p.m., a former Congressional staffer, who had an active Congressional ID, entered the Cannon Garage and bypassed security screening. The former staff member left the building a few minutes later,” Capitol Police told Fox News in a statement.
The Capitol Police said that contrary to previous reporting, the staffer did not break in to the Cannon building.
“Our agents interviewed the former staffer and determined they are not a threat,” the agency added. “The USCP’s Office of Professional Responsibility will be conducting an administrative investigation.”
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Investigators pulled video of the former staffer. Officers also were showing the image of a man with a beard and wearing a hoodie to congressional aides as they pulled out of the Cannon garage, asking if they had seen him.
Fox News Digital has reached out to Chavez-DeRemer.
In another security incident just last month, a man armed with a gun made it through the Capitol Visitor Center checkpoint and joined a tour of the building. The USCP noted the magnetometers had sounded and an officer performed a secondary hand search but missed the handgun and the suspect was allowed inside. Police later found and arrested the man.
Chavez-DeRemer, the daughter of a Teamsters member, resigned from her seat in January after she was nominated by Trump to head the Department of Labor.
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“Lori has worked tirelessly with both Business and Labor to build America’s workforce, and support the hardworking men and women of America,” Trump said on his Truth Social platform at the time.
“I look forward to working with her to create tremendous opportunity for American Workers, to expand Training and Apprenticeships, to grow wages and improve working conditions, to bring back our Manufacturing jobs.”
The one-term Republican lost her re-election bid in November to Democrat Janelle Bynum. Chavez-DeRemer is scheduled to testify before the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) on Wednesday.
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