Sen. Mitch McConnell and his wife, Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao, wave to the crowd during a parade for veterans in Madisonville, Ky., on Nov. 2, 2014. | Tom Williams/CQ Roll CallThe Transportation Department under Secretary Elaine Chao designated a special liaison to help with grant applications and other priorities from her husband Mitch McConnell’s state of Kentucky, paving the way for grants totaling at least $78 million for favored projects as McConnell prepared to campaign for reelection.Chao’s aide Todd Inman, who stated in an email to McConnell’s Senate office that Chao had...…Sen. Mitch McConnell and his wife, Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao, wave to the crowd during a parade for veterans in Madisonville, Ky., on Nov. 2, 2014. | Tom Williams/CQ Roll CallThe Transportation Department under Secretary Elaine Chao designated a special liaison to help with grant applications and other priorities from her husband Mitch McConnell’s state of Kentucky, paving the way for grants totaling at least $78 million for favored projects as McConnell prepared to campaign for reelection.Chao’s aide Todd Inman, who stated in an email to McConnell’s Senate office that Chao had...WW…

Pete Buttigieg takes the reins at DOT and brings his Twitter army with him.Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg smiles during a Senate Commerce Committee confirmation hearing. | Stefani Reynolds/Pool via APPete Buttigieg will be the next Transportation secretary, bringing his political celebrity and legion of super fans to a mammoth agency that’s not used to headlines — unless they’re jokes about “Infrastructure Week.”After four years of leadership under former President Donald Trump’s Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao, a Washington, D.C., insider who was notoriously unavailable to...…Pete Buttigieg takes the reins at DOT and brings his Twitter army with him.Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg smiles during a Senate Commerce Committee confirmation hearing. | Stefani Reynolds/Pool via APPete Buttigieg will be the next Transportation secretary, bringing his political celebrity and legion of super fans to a mammoth agency that’s not used to headlines — unless they’re jokes about “Infrastructure Week.”After four years of leadership under former President Donald Trump’s Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao, a Washington, D.C., insider who was notoriously unavailable to...WW…

The president-elect promised “to work as hard for those who didn’t vote for me as for those who did.”President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris give a victory speech in Delaware. | Andrew Harnik/AP PhotoPresident-elect Joe Biden claimed victory Saturday night, pledging in an address to the nation “to be a president who seeks not to divide but unify,” and drawing a contrast between himself and President Donald Trump without speaking the incumbent’s name.He also evoked former President Barack Obama, promising that as president he wouldn’t “see red states and blue states,...…The president-elect promised “to work as hard for those who didn’t vote for me as for those who did.”President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris give a victory speech in Delaware. | Andrew Harnik/AP PhotoPresident-elect Joe Biden claimed victory Saturday night, pledging in an address to the nation “to be a president who seeks not to divide but unify,” and drawing a contrast between himself and President Donald Trump without speaking the incumbent’s name.He also evoked former President Barack Obama, promising that as president he wouldn’t “see red states and blue states,...WW…