Cabinet Secretary (Elaine Chao) logged 290 hours of mysterious 'private' time

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https://shareblue.com/elaine-chao-trump-cabinet-secretary-290-hours-private-time/

Elaine Chao has taken the equivalent of weeks of vacation in 'private' meetings.

Trump’s Secretary of Transportation Elaine Chao has already put in nearly 300 hours of “private” time while serving as a Cabinet member.

The highly unusual practice raises all sorts of questions about how Chao is spending her time as a taxpayer-paid public official.

“In total, Chao clocked more than 290 hours of appointments labeled private — the equivalent of about seven weeks’ vacation — during her first 14 months in President Donald Trump’s Cabinet, based on a review of documents provided under the Freedom of Information Act,” Politico reports.

There’s a suspicion that Chao just isn’t work that hard, as she constantly fills up her Friday afternoon schedules with “private time” meetings. Either that or Chao and her office are purposefully trying to hide from the public what she’s doing as secretary of transportation.

If Chao is regularly checking out early on Friday afternoons, she would be mirroring the light work schedule of her boss. Trump typically doesn’t start his workday until 11 a.m., after he’s taken advantage of three hours of “executive time,” which usually means watching Fox News.

Chao’s office insists the unknown “private” time blocks of time listed on her day-to-day calendars are used to conceal Chao’s travel plans for security reasons. Or they’re because she’s doing things like meeting with personal friends, going to the doctor, or having lunch with her husband, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY).
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1. Remember this about Elaine Chao:

She was Labor Secretary during the G.W. Bush administration. At a Senate Hearing, she was asked what the minimum wage was. She did not know. Her answer was "Severn something.'

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2. McConnell & wife Elaine Chao, Kavanaugh & his wife Estes. All closely tied to the Bush Admin

GW, Illegally appointed by the SC in 2000, it was Kavanaugh who stopped the Recount.
His wife, (Estes), like McConnell's (Chao) were both closely connected in the GW Bush admin.

Repeated in 2016.
Such a tight little group. And here they are with the 2nd stolen election & they're ALL STILL calling the shots & grifting freely.

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3. Good. The less she works, the less damage she will do. Nt

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6. LOL, Well that is true.

A positive perspective is appreciated.

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4. Who spends 290 hours having lunch and going to the doctor?

If she had some serious health issues (which it’s OUR RIGHT to know about, since WE are her employers and WE pay her salary and she’s supposed to be “working for US”), then why should she be a Cabinet-level department head? If she has to spend that much time going to the doctor, why can’t we know whether she’s suffering some serious ailment that might disqualify her from full-time employment?

290 hours? I just did the math. Divide 290 by 8 - like an 8-hour work day. And you get 36.25. I think that means 36 8-hour days. 36 work days. Gee whiz. What’s that in work weeks? If you assume FIVE 8-hour work days per work week, five into 36 is seven (with change). Seven weeks. In less than TWO years on the job? SUPPOSEDLY on the job? Sounds like a pretty cushy job to me. That doesn’t count weekends or an assumed two-week vacation for each or two years.

And she hasn’t been on the job for two full years. Her employment didn’t start til January 31st of LAST YEAR. Which means she’s been on the job for 20 months. That’s not even two full years. And already she’s enjoyed 7 weeks “vacation”? I guess you’re entitled to a month off per year when you’re a Cabinet-level Secretary?

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5. What qualifies her, in the first place, for Transportation Secretary? Just married to Mich?

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7. Yup. Sounds like who 'you know' is about all that's required of any of the Trump admin.

No skill, past experience, education or resume required.

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8. Her relatives own a shipping company

IIRC