The Labor Department estimated that an additional 4 million lower-paid salary workers would become eligible for overtime protections in the first year under the new rule.

The rule would have required employers to pay overtime premiums to salaried workers who earn less than $1,128 per week, or about $58,600 per year, when they work more than 40 hour

On Friday a federal judge in Texas struck down a new rule from the Biden administration aimed at extending overtime protections to millions of workers. Judge Sean D. Jordan of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas ruled that the Labor Department went beyond its authority in issuing the regulation earlier this year.

First lady Jill Biden's former press secretary was one of many on social media to blast an MSNBC guest who labeled a Trump cabinet nominee as a "white supremacist."

Michael LaRosa, the first lady's former press secretary, called for a more strategic approach to political debate on social media.

Former Jill Biden spokesman Michael LaRosa said in a post on X that opposing diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives “does not make you a white supremacist.” LaRosa was responding to a Mediatite article detailing how an MSNBC guest called President-elect Donald Trump’s Secretary of Defense nominee Pete Hegseth a white supremacist for opposing DEI in