US Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao has announced that she will be resigning from her post, effecting January 11th, in the wake of pro-Trump riots at the Capitol. Chao has served as transportation secretary since January 2017, and is the first Cabinet member to leave her post following Wednesday’s riots. Officials who have resigned since Wednesday’s chaos include the former White House press secretary and first lady Melania Trump’s chief of staff, Stephanie Grisham; deputy White House press secretary Sarah Matthews; deputy national security adviser Matt Pottinger; White House social secretary Rickie Niceta; the US’s special envoy to Northern Ireland and former White House chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney; and other officials from the Commerce Department and National Security Council.
