Elaine Chao
(March 26, 1953)
American politician who is the 18th and current United States Secretary of Transportation.
She is a member of the Republican Party.
Born in Taipei, Taiwan, Chao was the first Asian American woman and the first Chinese American in U.S. history to be appointed to a President's Cabinet. She served as the 24th United States Secretary of Labor under President George W. Bush from 2001 to 2009, and as Deputy Secretary of Transportation and Director of the Peace Corps under President George H. W. Bush.
She spent four years as the president of the United Way of America.
On November 29, 2016, President-elect Donald Trump nominated Chao to serve as
She was confirmed by the Senate on January 31, 2017, in a 93–6 vote.
Chao is married to Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, who has been the Senate Republican Leader since January 3, 2007.
Chao was the only cabinet member in the George W. Bush administration to serve for the entirety of his eight years.[29] She was also the longest-serving Secretary of Labor since Frances Perkins, who served from 1933 to 1945, under President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
In 2009 Chao resumed her previous role as a Distinguished Fellow at The Heritage Foundation,
In 1993, Chao married Mitch McConnell, the senior U.S. Senator from Kentucky and the eventual Senate Majority Leader. They were introduced by Stuart Bloch, an early friend of McConnell's, and his wife Julia Chang Bloch, a Chinese American and a future U.S. Ambassador to Nepal, the first Asian American to serve as US Ambassador, who mentored Chao. Bloch described Chao as a "tiger wife."
In an interview with CNN, Chao said she sometimes regrets not having children, and she counseled young women that there are trade-offs in life.
The Chao family emigrated from Taiwan; Elaine Chao is the oldest of six sisters, the others being Jeannette, May, Christine, Grace, and Angela.
] The New York Times reported that "several of her five younger sisters married Wall Street titans, including Bruce Wasserstein, the late owner of New York Magazine."
Her father, James S.C. Chao, is a shipping magnate who founded the Foremost Group.
In April 2008, Chao's father gave Chao and McConnell between $5 million and $25 million, which "boosted McConnell's personal worth from a minimum of $3 million in 2007 to more than $7 million" and "helped the McConnells after their stock portfolio dipped in the wake of the financial crisis that year."
In 2012, the Chao family donated $40 million to Harvard Business School for scholarships for students of Chinese heritage and the Ruth Mulan Chu Chao Center, an executive education building named for Chao's late mother.
It is the first building named after a woman on the Harvard campus and the first building named after an American of Asian ancestry. Ruth Mulan Chu Chaoreturned to school at age 51 to earn a master's degree in Asian literature and history from St. John's University in the Queens borough of New York City.
Chao and her family are immigrats that can to America and have prospered under American ideals.
Elaine Chao stood by Trumpworld as he denigraded America in his ivory white Trump Towers.
When asked her opinion of his statements, she replied, "I stand behind my man. Both of them."
Elaine Chao stood by Trumpworld as he denigraded America in his ivory white Trump Towers.
When asked her opinion of his statements, she replied, "I stand behind my man. Both of them."
Elaine Chao stands by her husband Mitch McConnell and Trumpworld as they deny and decimate the rights of other minorities and immigrants in TRUMPWORLD'S AMERKKKA2017.
CALL HER OUT!
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