Full speed ahead for deregulation train

Labor Secretary Patrick Pizzella knows he is likely to be demoted by the Trump administration before the end of the year, but doesn’t mind. He is, in fact, eagerly helping the process along by setting things up for his expected replacement, Eugene Scalia, the former Labor Department solicitor under the Bush administration.

Pizzella is only the department’s acting secretary and still views himself as the deputy secretary. He took over after Alexander Acosta stepped down in July, but still does mostly the same work: presiding over the administration’s deregulatory agenda.