Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has been getting as much as he can out of Donald Trump. First he was able to secure the top transportation position in our government for his wife, Elaine Chao. Mrs. Chao is such a dumb dumb she publicly admitted that her infrastructure plan included making Americans pay tolls to corporations. Now, McConnell is making sure Mrs. Chao’s brother-in-law gets in on the act. Gordon Hartogensis is married to Chao’s sister, and Trump just picked him to head the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp.
Hartogensis was nominated to direct the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp., a Labor Department agency that collects insurance premiums from sponsors of defined-benefit plans and pays out benefits when companies cannot meet their obligations.
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Hartogensis declined to comment when reached by phone Tuesday. His current position is managing his family’s trust, according to his LinkedIn page.
His nomination by Trump raised questions among government ethics experts on the selection process and vetting for Hartogensis, a nominee with no apparent public service experience or direct insight into the agency’s mission.
It seems like Hartogensis will still be “managing his family’s trust,” as everyone in this administration only specializes in doing things that benefit themselves.
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