Hahaha what the fuck, Elaine Chao is heir to a giant Chinese shipping company
https://www.forbes.com/sites/michelatindera/2019/06/10/million-will-sheds-light-on-shipping-fortune-connected-to-elaine-chao-and-mitch-mcconnell/>In the heart of the Great Recession, Mitch McConnell suddenly got richer. According to his 2009 financial disclosure, while other senators’ fortunes were falling, McConnell’s jumped, thanks to a multimillion-dollar gift from his father-in-law, James Chao, to him and his wife, Elaine Chao, who now serves as President Trump’s Secretary of Transportation. https://www.govexec.com/oversight/2019/09/house-investigating-transportation-secretary-elaine-chaos-possible-conflicts-interest/159914/>“The committee is examining your misstatements of fact, your actions that may have benefited the company in which you continued to hold shares, and your compliance with ethics and financial disclosure requirements,” Chairman Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md. and Chairman of the Subcommittee on Economic and Consumer Policy Raja Krishnamoorthi, D-Ill. wrote in a letter to the secretary on Monday. The committee is requesting a slew of documents by Sept. 30 relating to Chao’s involvement with her family’s shipping company, potential financial conflicts of interest and official travel.>Chao’s father and sisters own a shipping company called Foremost Group, which has a fleet of foreign-flagged ships that transport materials to and from China. The committee cited reports that she allegedly used her role in the U.S. government to boost the company’s status, which federal regulations prohibit. It cited 2018 and 2019 budget requests in which her department wanted to cut millions of dollars from programs that support U.S. ships and shipbuilders. The committee believes such decisions could have been made to benefit Foremost Group. 