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Elaine Chao

  1. early and often
    ‘Trumpier Than Trump’ Coal Baron Runs for Senate — As a DemocratEx-con, ex-Republican Don Blankenship is still full of rage at Joe Manchin and Mitch McConnell. His new party wants nothing to do with him.
    By Ed Kilgore
  2. conflicts of interest
    Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao Owns Stock She Vowed to Divest: ReportDespite owning gravel company stock she agreed to divest, the Department of Transportation said that Chao isn’t engaged in an ethical violation.
    By Matt Stieb
  3. drama
    Elaine Chao Shouts at Protesters for Heckling Her Lame Husband Mitch McConnellA group of Georgetown students confronted Chao and McConnell about the administration’s family-separation policy.
    By Madeleine Aggeler
  4. Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao Finally Gets Her Own Ethics ScandalHer many interviews with her shipping magnate father feature the Transportation Department emblem and highlight her government connections.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  5. GOP Senate Candidate in West Virginia Calls McConnell ‘Cocaine Mitch’Don Blankenship is now adding Mitch McConnell to the list of conspirators — including Barack Obama — he says are trying to keep him out of the Senate.
    By Ed Kilgore
  6. Elaine Chao Confesses Trump Personally Pushed to Kill Major NYC ProjectIn unusually dramatic congressional testimony.
    By Benjamin Hart
  7. The Trump-McConnell Feud Becoming a ‘Cold War’At the worst possible time, relations between the president and the leader of his party in the Senate have become frosty, distant, and even combative.
    By Ed Kilgore
  8. government gazillionaires
    The Billionaires (and Mega-Millionaires) Trump Wants in His CabinetPopulism has seldom been so rich. A nominee dossier.
    By Nick Tabor and James D. Walsh
  9. Trump Picks Elaine Chao for Transportation SecretaryChao would have a key role in shaping Trump’s infrastructure plan — a policy that her husband Mitch McConnell has displayed little enthusiasm for.
    By Eric Levitz