Regulations and Government
DOT Secretary Chao Resigns, Citing 'Avoidable Event'
U.S. DOT Secretary Elaine Chao this afternoon announced her resignation, citing “a traumatic and entirely avoidable event" yesterday on Capitol Hill.

U.S. Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao this afternoon announced her resignation effective Monday, January 11, citing “a traumatic and entirely avoidable event [yesterday] as supporters of the President stormed the Capitol building following a rally he addressed” in a letter to colleagues. Chao, the wife of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky), has guided the Department of Transportation (DOT) with an experienced, and largely non-partisan, hand since she took office in February 2017.