Where is Transportation secretary Elaine Chao?
Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao’s day-to-day calendars are filled with large swaths of time blocked out as “private,” according to POLITICO’s analysis of newly released records — a pattern that several former DOT officials called unusual.
In total, Chao clocked more than 290 hours of appointments labeled private — the equivalent of about seven weeks’ vacation — during her first 14 months in President Donald Trump’s Cabinet, based on a review of documents provided under the Freedom of Information Act. That total does not include any private hours that occurred on nights, weekends, days marked as vacation or federal holidays.
The vast majority of Chao’s private appointments occurred on Fridays — frequently after lunchtime, and including nine Fridays when she marked at least five hours as private.
A DOT spokesperson explained some of the “private” blocks ... involved appointments that “range from doctor’s appointments to meeting with personal friends to tending to personal needs or regularly sharing meals with her husband,” Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.
But the department says,
"the secretary is working long and hard for the taxpayers".
https://www.politico.com/interactives/2018/where-is-elaine-chao/
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Yup, looking forward was good for getting health care done. And that pesky economic crash helped W escape jail. It was a though time. But I still rue the fact that we didn't go after Cheney & Co. Getting away with murder (imo) made them all the stronger.
