.MaddowBlog: Transportation Sec. Elaine Chao faces House inquiry.
Close video The Rachel Maddow Show, 9/16/19, 9:11 PM ET House probing Chao on questions of conflict with family business Rachel Maddow reports on a newly opened House investigation of Trump Transportation Secretary and wife of Mitch McConnell, Elaine Chao, who is accused of being too close to her family’s shipping business while ostensibly representing the business of the share tweet email save Embed Earlier this summer, Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao faced accusations that she made...
The request by the committee in the Democrat-controlled House relates to actions Ms. Chao has taken that potentially benefited Foremost Group, a New York-based shipping company owned by her family. It’s hardly unreasonable for the House Oversight Committee to seek some additional information about the Transportation secretary and her possible efforts to benefit her family’s business.
That news arrived around the same time that we learned new details about Alex Acosta, Trump’s former Labor secretary, who allegedly broke the law while shielding a politically connected sex trafficker. Acosta was later forced to resign.
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