Trump may nominate former Labour Secretary Elaine Chao for transportation post

Veteran Washington politician Elaine Chao has been tipped to be named as Donald trump’s transportation chief when he takes the reins in the US next year. Ms Chao was George W Bush’s Labour Secretary and held a post in the Department of Transportation during his father’s presidency in the 1990s. She is likely to have her work cut out, responsible for Mr Trump’s promise to invest $1trn in the country’s transport infrastructure, as well as overseeing regulation for the burgeoning drones and driverless vehicles sectors. She is expected to come to the job well-versed in some of the issues, given that her father, James Chao, was a Chinese seafarer who went on to found the Foremost Group shipping empire.