Elaine Chao Silences Critics as McConnell Questions Swirl

Chip Somodevilla / via REUTERS Elaine Chao has learned to keep her comments off when posting on social media amid her husband’s continued absence from Congress. The former transportation secretary, 73, has limited who can respond to her posts on X as Sen. Mitch McConnell remains missing from the public eye more than six weeks after he took a fall and was rushed to the hospital. Chao returned to X on Thursday to tout an award she received from the Aero Club of Washington. Read more at The Daily…