Cabinet Secretary (Elaine Chao) logged 290 hours of mysterious 'private' time [View all]

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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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