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What Trump's Transportation Pick Could Mean For Mass.
ResumeOn Tuesday, President-elect Donald Trump nominated Elaine Chao as secretary of transportation. Chao, who served as the secretary of labor under George W. Bush and is also the wife of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, is an experienced Washington insider. As transportation secretary, she will be tasked with taking on an aging infrastructure that Trump promised to rebuild during his campaign.
Trump has also promised a trillion dollar investment in American infrastructure over the next 10 years. Trump says the funds will fix the our nation's airports, highways, bridges, tunnels, pipelines, schools and hospitals.
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Richard Davey, secretary of transportation of Massachusetts from 2011-2014, general manager of the MBTA from 2010-2011, and vice president at Transdev, which tweets @transdev.
This article was originally published on December 01, 2016.
This segment aired on December 1, 2016.