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The Transportation Department's inspector general referred the findings to the Justice Department in December 2020. The DOJ declined to open its own investigation.
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Chao said she was "deeply troubled" by the violence on Wednesday, which she described in a letter to colleagues as "traumatic and entirely avoidable."
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Elaine Chao, wife of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, was President George W. Bush's labor secretary and served in top transportation jobs in the first Bush and Reagan administrations.
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The former labor secretary worked in both Bush administrations; her resume runs counter to the anti-establishment message Donald Trump campaigned on.