Former US Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao returned to the United States from China this week after her husband, Sen Mitch McConnell, was hospitalized on June 14 and since then, there have been very few updates about his health.
Where is Elaine Chao?
According to reports, Elaine Chao who is 72, came back to US this week.
“The secretary was on a long-planned trip in China to support her family’s philanthropic endeavors,” a spokesperson for Chao said in a statement to The Courier Journal, part of the USA TODAY Network. “During the trip, she met with a number of people, including the U.S. ambassador. The senator’s health did not warrant an immediate return to the US.”
Chao, who headed the Transportation Department during President Donald Trump’s first term and served as Labor secretary under President George W Bush and has been married to McConnell for decades.
Days after he was hospitalized, on June 17, the Chinese embassy in Washington, DC released a photograph of Chao seated beside Chinese Vice President Han Zheng before a grand painting of the Great Wall in Beijing.
Chao’s staff did not indicate whether she’d been in contact with McConnell since returning home, according to the CBS affiliate WLKY in Louisville. She left for the trip to China on June 12, just two days before McConnell was hospitalized.
Meanwhile, Marjorie Taylor Greene told TMZ that Mitch is “a vegetable” and that his “Communist Chinese spy” wife is meeting with Chinese leaders instead of rushing home to be by his bedside.
New flooring at McConnell’s home
According to TMZ, While McConnell’s health status remains up in the air, life goes on at his Washington, DC residence, at least when it comes to flooring.
A TMZ producer, Charlie Cotton, visited the Senator’s home on Friday to see if he could get any answers on Mitch’s health, and saw a man leaving the house with carpeting samples. Charlie spoke to the man off camera, and it sounds like new tiles are being considered too.
And people have things to say on social media:
One user wrote, “Elaine Chao is getting ready to sell it.”
While another wrote, “My guess is the Chao family is used to getting every nickel they can. It doesn’t matter that Mitch is receding into his shell, Elaine is mostly worried about the resale value of the DC townhome.”
And third user wrote, “I think Elaine Chao is getting ready to sell her dead husband’s house.”
McConnell has spent several weeks in the hospital after being found unconscious at his Washington, DC residence, where he required CPR.
A neighbor told CNN they saw a stretcher being removed from McConnell’s residence about 30 minutes after first spotting ambulances on the street. “He’s in a stretcher, and he’s in some sort like orange foam looking blanket type thing,” the neighbor said, noting they could see his feet, which were “not moving.”
